Tainted Truth

Taking audiences on a visual journey of spiritual trauma, 2018 Resident Artist Ruthintruth uses performance, photography and film to capture the shame, abuse and grief that so often affects how queer people experience religion.

Tainted Truth is an exploration of the ways spiritual trauma forms, especially in queer communities, and moves to the pain and chaos that trauma creates. “Purity culture” and ideas of the rapture—two staples of evangelical belief—are motifs that ground the work. Tainted Truth seeks to capture the disillusionment of losing one’s trust in spiritual leaders and communities.

Tainted Truth opened at Nous Tous Gallery on October 11, 2018. The show featured live performances from Chulita Vinyl Club and Sin Color.