Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix, Sense8) has painted portraits of the 27 trans people known to be murder victims in the U.S. in 2016, for an art exhibit at Chicago’s Center on Halstead. All of the brightly-colored portraits in “Say Our Names” incorporate the colors of the trans flag and are based on photos of the victims.
She began painting them last July, she says, as “an outlet of the overwhelming emotion I was feeling in the relentless waves of mortal acts of violence against trans people.”
Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski Painted Portraits Of The 27 Trans People Murdered In 2016
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