LILY BALDWIN

FALLING FOR THIS STRANGER INSIDE

PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES AND INSTALLATION





Using veritè footage documenting her experience with a “compensated” body, Baldwin personifies her hidden parts (MRI of spinal cord lesion, X-Ray of arthritic pelvis and with hip replacement) as a hybrid being: Cyborg-Lil.

Cyborg-lil appropriates cyborgs-ploitation aesthetics to hijack ableist heroic tropes and cultures of beauty. Each narrative snapshot restages a public encounter that Baldwin’s body could not participate in, or found challenging to do so.