Elephant Issue 45 hits the shelves today! Inside, Emily Gosling speaks with Barbados-born, Glasgow-based artist Alberta Whittle, whose powerful oeuvre spans “languorous, poetic video essays… collage, installation, curation and performance”. Whittle has suffered with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue throughout her life, and much of her work centres on the “dichotomy between the female body as a force of nature and a fragile fundament of fear, subjection, tyranny and sickness,” to quote Gosling. “Deciding that I’m going to love my body, even when it can’t always labour, is anti-capitalist,” the artist explains. “It’s anti-white supremacy, it is absolutely a positive and profound act of resistance.” Click here to order the new issue and read the interview in full.
