Bee Illustrates & Cheer Up Luv: ‘Vacant // Engaged’ (2024)

Bathroom Installation, as part of HYSTERICAL: RADICAL CREATIVITY.

This secret installation ‘Vacant // Engaged’ acts as an immersive space where the audience and art become one. As a delicate, inventive and timely commentary on the discourse surrounding single-sex spaces, this installation questions the arbitrary nature of the gender binary, and speaks to the fluidity and expansive nature of femininity and community in whatever form it takes.

By creating this installation, the pair hope to encourage and facilitate open, compassionate discussion on inclusion and safety for all genders and the importance of intersectionality when it comes to applying feminist principles to everyday life.

As a non-binary and cisgender creative duo who have both experienced the effects of gender- based discrimination, Bee Illustrates and Cheer Up Luv feel that it is both urgent and poignant to debut their artwork during Women’s History Month, with Trans Day of Visibility falling on the final day of the exhibition — the 31st of March.

Vacant // Engaged encourages viewers to reflect upon and remember the significance of trans women and the LGBTQIA+ community in feminist liberation movements, and calls upon the audience’s continued support of trans and gender-diverse people in our collective fight for gender equality.