At the Ashford Gallery of the RHA is Witch and Lezzie, an exhibition by the visual artist Breda Lynch. The comprising works traffic in borrowed images, in particular those of the lesbian characters in the ‘Pulp’ fiction of the 1940s and 60s. These paperbacks purported to offer a window into the nature of homosexual erotic relationships—a window whose view is smudged by the fingerprints of the prevailing ‘heteronormative’ culture of its time. Lynch wrests these images from the past and appropriates them for her own use. The resulting works are quite daring, are often humorous, and, for better or worse, feel very much of our time.
