Helena Vinent. Accident

Helena Vinent presents Accident, the last of the Espai 13 season of exhibitions We Will Keep Each Other Company When It Grows Dark, curated by Irina Mutt.

Vinent’s work, shot through with crip-queer discourse and her own stance as someone who is deaf and crip*, questions the conventions related to pleasure and accessibility, thereby advocating other possibilities that offer different ways of being and of being in the world, of sharing it. Inspired by the rebelliousness of punk bands, the artist devises situations in which a gang of – for now – unknown cripples interrupts normality with anti-ableist actions. This gang’s actions subvert the ableist and paternalistic vision that infantilises disabled people and reduces them to accommodating, asexual, submissive, harmless subjects without any kind of political or sexual-affective agency.