Mircroscape 01

From a series called "Microscapes", which considers the body as a landscape, both internally and externally. Our bodies are constantly shifting, reshaped by forces both within and beyond our control

LIL WEETCH (1990, London, UK) is a mixed-media artist from London. They create immersive environments using photography, film, light, audio, and sculpture, often leaning into abstraction, fracturing classicism, and blurring the boundaries of spatial experience. Their work frequently explores the relationship between human experience and the temporal, ever-changing rhythms of the natural world, touching on themes of grief, identity, and the intersection of ecological and anthropological themes.

During this residency as Casa LU Parque in Mexico City, I have been developing a series called Microscapes, which considers the body as a landscape, both internally and externally, while rejecting the outdated notion of the “bodyscape” as an idealised form. Our bodies are constantly shifting, reshaped by forces both within and beyond our control. I am interested in how external events, life’s unpredictability, our embodied experience of gender and personal tragedy imprint themselves on us, influencing who we are and how we move through the world.

I have photographed natural phenomena in bodies of water. From these images, I construct works that carry an inherent ambiguity and mystery in their origin, materiality, and surface. The process of image transfer, a highly physical technique, makes me feel like an archaeologist revealing the image, transporting me back to the original experience of photographing these environments. At times, the material rejects the image, mirroring the ways we sometimes reject our own bodies. While these pieces emerge from my own subjectivity and personal phenomenology, they ultimately invite viewers to encounter their own experiences within them.