A wake is staged - the Irish kind. Biogal is its gogo banshee - keening in transsexual exile. The clocks are stopped; the curtains closed; mirrors are covered; a window ajar - just so - let the souls slip. And the body? HA! made you look (see: unseen). A worm that’s not a worm; a silkworm; a name that deadens: a deadname. Silkworm. Capital before life, half-life, fatal misnomer, taxonomic failure, tactical error. Bred for boiling mid-chrysalis in the name of luxury good. Bred for murder whilst waiting in the name of luxury good. No time to grieve before another is mourned, but we try desperate all the same. Like Irish mother and hers before her, in time thick with losing it, we cry, sing, laugh, dance, drink, flirt & play. And all of this we do in the living room of the landlord. T*S showgirl in the living room of the landlord. Our grief is a threat to the state, and so we must wake.

Wake for the Worm begins with a private extended performance that haunts the installation thereafter. Extending her efforts of attempted interspecies prayer, Biogal weaves sericulture and silkworm lamentation into a trap-filled tapestry of multifaceted griefwork. In the aftermath of personal loss intimately felt; as a survivor of state-endorsed violence against transwomen; and as a witness made complicit by the U.K. government to multiple ongoing genocides - Biogal presents a freedom-dreaming plea for decolonial solidarity in a grief made metonymically unified. A show for those we have lost to state violence across time, space, sex and species.

Biogal is a T*S Anarcho Showgirl Writer Curator & Organiser.
Found wet and stumbling at the wake of the world - NOW UNCUT! - she:
a pre-op hypnopompic autogyne animalist cum disgraced gogo banshee
posing prostrate under pressure and/or in light of commercial constriction:
a pornographer caught in prayer.

Biogal’s performance and installation work has been shown at the ICA, Modern Art Oxford, Bristol Old Vic, The Place, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, The Koppel Project, SET Woolwich, Ugly Duck & INFERNO. Her protest and performance collective Pissed Off Trannies have displayed films, made in collaboration with Sweatmother, at the 2024 Venice Biennale and Tate Britain’s 2023 Queer and Now Festival. Her writing has been published with Brewer Street Press, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Team Angelica, The Bittersweet Review, Oestrogeneration and Tissue; and has been read by her at the Tate Britain, Bush Theatre, Horse Hospital, Frieze London and various universities and most recently the RCA. This is her third time presenting work at Amanda Wilkinson, and her first extended solo exhibition.