Bea Lauckner

Key Queer Communication, 2022

C-Type, Kodak Gloss Photographic Prints on Aluminium
42 x 59 cm

I was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2001. My discipline involves experimenting with and combining elements such as performance, installation, visuals, and audio, to create conceptual pieces. I use these mediums explore my own sexuality and gender, as well as the political context that comes along with that. 

This project, named Key Queer Communication was made as part of my Final Major Project and a visual element to my Dissertation topic. I have been interested in anonymity, in its multifaceted variations, as a component in queer culture and history. After having done some archive researching at the Bishopsgate Institute, London (largest store of queer-related archives), I began thinking more about visual communication and fashion resistance as a political warfare tactic against cis-straight society norms.

I used keys as a nod to my own identity and sexuality, whilst also acknowledging it is a universal code for queer women. When I first came out, I felt somewhat obligated to express that in my presentation but felt it was slightly outdated.

Now, that queer culture is mainstream, I utilise modern aesthetics in my portraiture whilst referencing a visual code used when LGBTQI+ people expressing themselves always had an unjust consequence.

@bealauckner

www.bealauckner.com

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