This installation explores lesbian identity through atmosphere and symbolic material. Combining suspended fabric, projected moving image, fragmented sound, handwritten text, and strands of collected hair from my lover and I’s brush, the work creates an environment centred on tenderness, devotion, and self-defined visibility.
A central exploration in my work is the politics of looking. I investigate how lesbian bodies have been shaped through fetishisation, misrepresentation, and erasure, and how these frameworks continue to inform perception. In response, I aim to disrupt fixed ways of seeing by creating work that resists immediacy and clarity. I am also interested in approaching lesbianism as something sacred, using material symbolism and atmosphere to create spaces that feel devotional, tender, and intentional. By slowing down perception and emphasising emotional experience over explanation, my work invites viewers to reflect on their own position as observers, and to encounter lesbian intimacy in a way that is self-defined, rather than voyeuristic.
BA (Hons) Fine Art - Canterbury 
Lilou Melville | Fine Art
