THEY LIED TO YOU ABOUT THE EUNUCHS delete James Richards

James Richards

This artist’ book is a polyphonic canon dedicated to a topic that is inescapable for us as humans: mortality

Maria Vorobjova

Then as now: “Beneath all the insignia and accoutrements of evil lurks the iconography of media kitsch and ridicule

it is naturally a focal point for the images

THEY LIED TO YOU ABOUT THE EUNUCHS delete James RichardsThis book project introduces the history of eunuchism through auto theory, historiography, historical fiction and poetry, exploring this identity in the ancient world and what kind of echoes can be heard in the present day. By overlapping various histories, and drawing the line between eunuchs in antiquity and contemporary gender discourse, Odete makes a case for a history of gender that hasnt yet been written, asking what is the relevance of eunuchs