Tribeca, New York
Lou Doillon
Visions From Above
Bienvenu Steinberg & CViewing Room Bienvenu Steinberg & C is pleased to present Visions from Above, an installation of drawings by French-British artist Lou Doillon. Visions From Above are self-portraits of a woman one can identify with and believe in: strong, independent, non-fetishized, free. In a self-empowering and revealing gesture Lou Doillon deconstructs the stereotype of the woman as the inaccessible object of desire, historically represented from a male gaze. She draws herself from life, keeping the pose until it becomes untenable, from torso to feet, an angle familiar to our selfie culture, showing fragments of a sexualized body at times, or a body engaged in daily activities, smoking, dressed or undressed as she pleases. The drawings, made in 2016-2017, are featured on a cherry wall paper designed by the artist. "I don’t remember ‘starting’ the Visions From Above, they appear very soon in my diaries. A statement of a presence, a moment, an existence, running the same necessity of a diary, and the practicality of an available model at all times ;). The thrill of a point of view that we all see, and that is hidden to others. The proof we have of our own existence. Then there is the pleasure of the impossible, accepting the distortion and the physical limitation of my tiring eyes, the ever fleeting drawing hand, the problematic of the distance of the foot versus the stillness of the paper glued to the table. Trusting that a line of ink will reveal where I begin and where I end. An attempt to daily testify this is where I am.” —Lou Doillon, October 2025 Born in France in 1982, Lou Doillon lives and works in Paris. A singer songwriter, actress, and creative collaborator with fashion houses since 1998, she has developed a unique multidisciplinary career. Drawing has been a daily activity for Doillon since childhood. With a fountain pen on Moleskine notebooks, she has been keeping a drawn and written diary since the age of 12. In 2017, Doillon released Drawings, a book published by Astier de Villatte including 60 original drawings.