Starburst, 2026, Dye sublimation print, cast aluminum, steel hardware
In focus

Divine icons roam as lens
by Marina Grize

Sweetwater Gallery
March 5, 2026 through to April 18, 2026


The photographs as they appear in On Our Backs were never intended for all audiences. Obfuscation in the work is both a conceptual choice and a preservation of the original conditions of the magazine's circulation, its intimacy, its assumption of a particular reader. The two primary sources, On Our Backs and Valencia Street, are linked through place, time, and a shared project of lesbian sexual and cultural visibility, but, as mentioned earlier, neither is publicly apparent today. The title of the show Divine icons roam as lens is a near-anagram of Valencia in Mission Dolores. An anagram felt structurally true to the history I was working with. Terry Castle's concept of the "apparitional" lesbian describes a figure who has been made to not-quite-appear in Western cultural representation, present only as rumor, as shadow, as implication. The history is there but it requires a particular kind of attention to see. 


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