AC Larsen:Spiritus Sanctus

AC Larsen’s multidisciplinary practice explores the social, political and metaphysical realities of inhabiting a trans body. Drawing on references such as pop culture, fashion, religious iconography, as well as collective nostalgia, Larsen constructs works that interrogate the systems and symbols shaping contemporary queer experience. Familiar visual languages are reconfigured to expose tensions and performative power structures embedded within institutional and cultural frameworks. Central to their practice is an engagement with materiality, both linguistic and physical, with objects selected for their historical and symbolic resonance. Through layered installations and charged material relationships, Larsen examines how bodies are constructed and perceived, while reflecting on vulnerability, ritual, belonging and the conditions of queer existence within contemporary society.

Larsen was born in Wales in 1994 and completed an MFA in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art, London, in 2023. Residencies include Low Realisms: The Artists’ Research Laboratory at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (2025) and the Artist in Residence programme at OOF Gallery, London (2025). In 2025, they presented their first solo exhibition, All For One, One For None, at OOF Gallery, London. Selected group exhibitions include Queer Art(ists) Now at Space Station Sixty-Five, London (2022); Metamorphosis at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston-upon-Thames (2023); New Contemporaries at ICA, London and The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth (2025); Low Realisms at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (2025); and British Textile Biennale: 100% UNOFFICIAL: The Fabric of Fandom at Turton Tower, Blackburn (2025). Larsen currently lives and works in London.