Melanie Manchot’s Notes on look at you loving me : In 1995 I asked my mother whether I could photograph her naked. What followed became an unexpectedly prolonged process of working together on a series of projects that lasted until 2001. The aim of this work is complex, but the project initially arose out of the desire to make images with a woman who through the sheer process of getting older was considered beyond such categories as beauty, sensuality, attractiveness, and who, along with a vast majority of women of her generation, was now at the margins of visibility.

The body of work, look at you loving me, consists of large-scale, bigger than life-sized black and white photographs printed onto canvas and worked on afterwards with a range of mixed media. Through this specific process, the work consciously seeks to establish a dialogue that is anchored within the photographic, but aesthetically engages with the histories of painting and drawing and the long trajectories of the representation of women within these practices.