Introduction: Ken Gonzales-Day's “Nevermade” and the Embodied Reworking of Discourse

This general introduction to the book, which also serves as a catalogue for the eponymous exhibition, explains the curatorial logic of the survey exhibition of Ken Gonzales-Day's work and the significance of his term “nevermade.” It asserts the power of Gonzales-Day's work in relation to theories of photography and the bodies of the marginalized and repressed, bodies that Gonzales-Day's practice returns to our consciousness, effectively reinscribing them in history.

Keywords: Chicanx Art ; Decolonial ; History ; Latinx Art ; Lynching ; Museum ; Photography ; Queer Imagery ; Racialized Power