Exploring the relationship between transgender bodies and the alien-other of science fiction & horror, Conor’s paintings act as a gateway to a dimension occupied by divine queer bodies. Their work looks to utilise the concept of Abjection as a liberatory field to explore ways of being that challenges paternal law.

The bodies that appear in these paintings, referred to as Visitors, are fluid, porous & permeable. They pull on forms of life native to earth such as fungi or marine life, informing the viewer that they are more like us than we might initially think. Confronted with bodies set apart from our understanding of sentience, viewers are asked to reckon with their own relationship to bodily autonomy & self-determination.