Introduction

Abstract

Visibility and invisibility, its opposite, are both timely topics when discussing a world in which media coverage and public exposure have become ubiquitous and where the famous claim that ‘in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes’ used by Andy Warhol in a 1968 exhibition seems proleptic in hindsight.¹ And yet these terms may sound slightly hackneyed in the sense that issues of visibility have occupied the centre stage for a few decades now, as the political struggles around identity politics, whether they be gender-, race-, or class-related, have dealt at some length with the visibility or lack of visibility of given marginal social groups, turning visibility into a battlecry.