Lou Lou Sainsbury

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.