Hard Lines

Hard Lines is an autobiographical installation that uses sentimentality, nostalgia and revenge to navigate the aftermath of an abandoned relationship, while questioning what it means to inhabit a body stigmatised by the overhanging spectres of class, disability and menopause.

Where do long, sleepless nights lie within the mire of the late thirties? Where do heartache and longing reside amid the frenzy of shame? When the body begins to give up the ghost, as it has threatened to do since birth - particularly now in it’s most dire of hours - how does this haunting not become consuming?

In her autobiography, Hilary Mantel writes, “I began this writing in an attempt to seize copyright in myself.” This work is an exercise in doing the same: drawing an edge around experience and representing it as fact.

Lisette is a Glasgow-based artist and writer from Kippax, Leeds. She regularly writes art criticism and opinion for Frieze, The Guardian, Elephant and Tank. She is also co-director of Rosie’s Disobedient Press alongside Adrien Howards. Rosie’s is an artist-led space for expanded publishing which focuses on practices that engage with queer, working-class, and feminist modes of production.