Strange Attractor Press would like to congratulate all four winners of this year's Turner Prize: Helen Cammock, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Oscar Murillo and Our Fatal Magic author, Tai Shani.

Reading a joint statement at the prize ceremony in Margate on Tuesday, Cammock spoke of unity and progression:

“At this time of political crisis in Britain and much of the world, when there is already so much that divides and isolates people and communities, we feel strongly motivated to use the occasion of the prize to make a collective statement in the name of commonality, multiplicity and solidarity – in art as in society.”

Tai Shani's book Our Fatal Magic (based on her prizewinning performance piece) is a subversive, expansive, and fantastical feminist collection of science fiction vignettes. Blending the erotic with the violent and the speculative with the recognisable, the threads of gender politics and queer theory interweave around heady and destabilising visions of alternative histories and post-patriarchal futures.

Bonding the mythological and the poetic with the piercingly contemporary that is, inevitably, a painfully acute register of the lived traumas of gender, racialization, age and diverse embodiment in a society defined by hierarchy and exclusion, Our Fatal Magic takes its unique place in a genealogy of brilliant fictional worlds created by women as testimonies and challenges to the world they have to endure. Tai Shani has reached deep into the dark powers of gothic literature and science fiction to trace an imaginative, polyvocal and visually sumptuous journey that often defies reason. It is exhilarating to encounter a work of such originality, ambition, depth, humour, eroticism, wit and pathos.

– Griselda Pollock

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