because the rain passes through me, i am the highest form of pure love

Lou Lou Sainsbury

BornNationalityBased In
1994N/ARotterdam
Biography

Lou Lou Sainsbury is an artist based between Rotterdam, NL working across film, live-performance, poetry, drawing, sculpture and textiles. She is a self-described time traveller, making things that unwrite histories of living beings into tricksterish dreamscapes, exploring identity, community and ecological entanglement. She often works in collaboration, developing intimate long term research-led projects guided by improvisation, cinematic processes and sonic thinking. Sainsbury’s work questions how we can become better listeners and how bodies can trouble history and geography. Moving across a poetics of sensual communion, her practice maps a cosmology of saints, aliens, hauntings, musicality, mysticism and elemental passions. Within this, writing ritual, collective study, domestic intervention, adaptation, song writing and make-shift mutations make up some of her idiosyncratic research methods. Utilising an expansive sensory material vernacular, Sainsbury’s work speaks towards transfeminine experience as a social process of finding resonance and belonging within the brokenness of human and more- than-human worlds. Through sonic exploration, splits, leakages, loops and remains, her genre-bending practice defies categorisation whilst troubling the cinematic. Rooted in friendships and everyday life, haunted and heartfelt, or humorous and uncompromising, her transformative work seeks to imagine stories for more liberated futures. ...

Selected Artworks
dead speak / living happens
Lou Lou Sainsbury
dead speak / living happens, 2019
83.2 x 80.6cm
Sunbeam's Frenz (the Solar Anus)
Lou Lou Sainsbury
Sunbeam's Frenz (the Solar Anus), 2020
120 x 81.2cm
die hippie sunbeam’s fever dream - where the caterpillars feed on the blood drops of dead fascists
Lou Lou Sainsbury
die hippie sunbeam’s fever dream - where the caterpillars feed on the blood drops of dead fascists, 2020
29.7 x 20.7cm
because the rain passes through me, i am the highest form of pure love
Lou Lou Sainsbury
because the rain passes through me, i am the highest form of pure love, 2024
Body Diary 1016_215625 dolls 4 dolls
Lou Lou Sainsbury
Body Diary 1016_215625 dolls 4 dolls, 2023
41.28 x 25.7cm
Body Diary 0215_153807 girl sword (spring time)
Lou Lou Sainsbury
Body Diary 0215_153807 girl sword (spring time), 2022
41.3 x 27.6cm
Body Diary 1231_183717 the first truth is in the earth and the body
Lou Lou Sainsbury
Body Diary 1231_183717 the first truth is in the earth and the body, 2023
41.28 x 25.7cm
i have decided to begin growing dandelions, i am their mother
Lou Lou Sainsbury
i have decided to begin growing dandelions, i am their mother, 2024
parasitic girl
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