Frieze: "In Lou Lou Sainsbury’s descending notes (2022) – the centrepiece of her solo exhibition, ‘Earth Is a Deadname’, at London’s Gasworks – one of the performers tells the audience that ‘the words don’t form don’t stop forming’. This dissonant approach to language characterizes both the film and The Law of Desire Is Fascist (2022), a poem written by Sainsbury (DAI, 2021) and artist Kari Leigh Rosenfeld (DAI, 2021), and recorded by queer poet Jo Mariner as a sound work. The word ‘form’ is crucial: this work is, at least partly, about how words form us, as trans people whose identities were formed largely by the categorizations of the 20th century medical establishment, but mainly about the aesthetic, social and political possibilities that come with rejecting the forms imposed by outsiders and creating our own." Ada M. Patterson and Raffia Li (DAI, 2021) also contributed to the exhibition. Find the link to the article in Frieze ( and to one in ARTFORUM) and to the show at Gasworks here.