Transsexual Time is a long term project exploring themes of non linear time, queer history and grief. In the absence of living queer and trans ancestors we often have to turn to archives to find traces of our pasts. What to do when you turn there only to find missing pieces, what do we do with those voids? This work merges artistic practice, archival research, and community-based initiatives to interrogate the politics of representation and the gaps in recorded trans history. Rather than positioning visibility as the end goal, this research critically engages with absence, loss, and erasure as generative spaces for life and imagination. Through photography, film, and DIY archival practices, the project resists linear narratives of trans experience and challenges the dominance of medicalized and transition-focused histories. The work will be on show at Finnish Photo Museum in Autumn 2025 and there is a publication in progress.
Film stills