Reading My Panties: DIY panty work-station by Lu Lin, an immersive night of imagination and storytelling.
Join us for a playful, participatory experience where you’re invited to reimagine, redesign, and reinvent panties through DIY creation. At our DIY panty station, unleash your creativity and give your touch to old panties donated by strangers. Throughout the night, spontaneous happenings will unfold, inviting you to uncover the hidden stories, memories, and whispers held within these personal fabrics.
For the occasion, Lu Lin will transform our smallest room into an intimate exhibition: using a double function torch, visitors can uncover hidden drawings and texts covering the walls and mirror, revealing the connections between social issues in China and the everyday panty, weaving feminist reflection into the most mundane of objects.
Last December, Lu Lin’s publication Reading My Panties 02: Queer Pillow Talk was presented at PrintRoom with a talk and a friendly take-over of the space — underwear hanging on clotheslines, inspired by women’s protests in Myanmar. Queer Pillow Talk explores the intersection of femininity, feminism, and queerness through the lens of panties, repositioning them as a site of struggle, memory, and transformation.
Reading My Panties is a publishing project by Lu Lin centred on clothing as a space for storytelling — exploring how underwear connects us to our bodies and identities. In many Asian cultures, talking about or showing one’s panties is considered taboo and rebellious. The project engages playfully with femininity and experiments with multiple ways of telling stories through the most mundane of garments.
Lu Lin (1992) is a self-publisher and socially engaged artist born in China, currently living and working in Arnhem (NL). She utilizes artistic approaches to deconstruct the complexity of safe spaces and explore their socio-political and cultural factors in relation to marginalization, drawing on intersectionality, feminism, and queerness. Her work takes various forms, including publishing practices, video essays, workshops, installations, and performances, all of which emphasize intimacy and collectivity.
