142 x 190mm, 28 pages, full colour printing, staple bound, 2023

Published on the occasion of Saoirse Amira Anis’s solo exhibition at DCA, symphony for a fraying body, this chapbook contains newly commissioned texts by writer, publisher and curator Sarah Shin, and artist, writer and curator Jamie Donald.

The exhibition marks the first major UK show by Anis, whose practice encompasses sculpture, performance, photography, film, writing and drawing and prioritises radical care, informality and empathy. Anis’s work is informed by Black queer literature, her personal ancestry and her own body as it moves through the world. She incorporates bodily knowledge and care into each facet of her work, considering the ways in which the body holds ancestral and lived memories.

Saoirse Amira Anis grew up in the countryside near Lanark and is now based in Dundee. Her work has been exhibited recently in the form of a solo show at Campleline, Dumfries, and as part of the Platform commissions for the 2022 Edinburgh Art Festival. Other recent projects include: Jupiter Rising, Jupiter Artland, 2021; A Lesson in Vanity, David Dale Gallery and LUX Scotland, 2021; and We Can Still Dance, Jupiter Artland, as part of the Black Lives Matter Mural Trail. Since graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Anis has completed residencies at Cove Park, Argyll and Bute; Hospitalfield in Arbroath; and Collemacchia, with the Museum of Loss and Renewal. In 2022, she curated Miss(ing) Information at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, and was a committee member at GENERATORprojects from 2018–2021.

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