Victoria Cantons @ Flowers Gallery

Alongside film and text-based works, Victoria Cantons’ exhibition, People Trust People Who Look Like Them, features a thematic cycle of large paintings that track the artist’s own transgender history, to reflect on issues of identity and what it means to be a woman.

Working from a personal archive of photographs made over a period of more than a decade in the years before, during, and after intensive facial surgery, Cantons’ paintings present a record of trauma and healing, alongside a rigorous inquiry into the social constraints surrounding gender politics.