The artwork features a vibrant, textured composition with a mix of bold colors and organic shapes. The central image depicts a sun-like form surrounded by swirling, abstract flora and fauna, creating a dynamic and surreal visual landscape. The use of embroidery and felt materials gives the piece a tactile, handcrafted quality. The text at the bottom, "DEAD SPEAK / LIVING HAPPENS," suggests a conceptual theme related to the coexistence of the natural and supernatural realms. This contemporary textile artwork likely reflects the artist's exploration of themes such as life, death, and the human experience. ...
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. ...
