The Guardian: "From genetics to allyship: how queer culture changed the family portrait, a Feature on Kindred Solidarities: Queer Community and Chosen Families" - 10/27/21

Andrea Geyer, Constellations (Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein with Pepe and Basket), 2018. Hand-cut archival print on rag paper. Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery, London and New York. [Image Description: A photograph of two women with short hair who are wearing floral-pattern dresses. There is a dog with brown fur on the lap of the woman on the left and a dog with white fur on the lap of the woman on the right. Pieces of the photograph are rearranged, creating a geometric dynamic.]

From genetics to allyship: how queer culture changed the family portrait -
A new exhibition, Kindred Solidarities, offers a perspective on how LGBTQ+ people have rewritten traditional ideas of family

by Julianne McShane
October 27, 2021, 11:15am EST

In a two-minute video produced by the artist Jamie Diamond in 2008, four women and one man gather to pose for what looks like a family portrait. They stand in front of a marble fireplace, in a room adorned with crystal chandeliers. Three of the women shift positions and adjust their hair before settling into smiling poses behind the man and the fourth woman, who are seated.

Despite their apparent familiarity, the five people featured in the video were strangers before filming. Diamond convened them to participate in her Constructed Family Portrait series, which explores “the public image of family, themes of photographic truth, gender, class, culture and identity”, according to the artist…

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