Dr Ope Lori is a conceptual and political artist who works primarily with the moving image and photography, around the politics of representation, race, gender and sexual identity and the female form in popular culture. Playfully re-writing these racialized scripts, looking and being seen, recognition and misrecognition take place, through the use of homoerotic images ‘of’ and ‘between’, black women and white women in visual dialogues and new to her most recent work, the incorporation of the male form. Her practice aims to draw the viewer in through the ways that looking dynamics are turned upside down, from positions of power, to powerlessness, from being passive spectators to consciously viewing participants. She is interested in the use of aesthetics in making visually pleasing screen images, but is also drawn to non-aesthetic spaces and strategies, that draws the viewer into the work by experiencing the image, through desire and pleasure. She produces purposely thought provoking and challenging works through her explicit use of stereotypes, which focus on taboo subjects such as inter racial mixing, gender role-playing and sexuality, all of which stem from the feminist mantra that ‘the personal is political’. Of Nigerian heritage she lives and work in London.