Jonathan Jones claims that the exhibition Lives Less Ordinary seeks to define the working class as a “single, stable body”, though goes on to acknowledge the ways in which the artists featured question and expand what it might mean to be working class (Lives Less Ordinary review – is this really a fair view of the British working class?, 27 January).
This is one of the entrenched myths the exhibition aims to do away with. Reflecting the nuanced intersections of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, and migrant status, the wide-ranging selection of the artists affirms “working classness as something dynamic and plural”, as is clearly stated in one of the exhibition’s wall texts.
