I once knew a monster who said she could not read Proust because there were no figures in Proust with whom she could identify…
Theodore W. Adorno, ‘Aesthetics’ (1958-59)
Getting an audience to identify themselves in a work – ‘being seen’ – is one of the only reasons why art is commissioned, celebrated or even allowed to exist today.
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