Like you, I love love
In Like you, I love love, artist Lena Holzer explores the emotional complexity of heterosexual age-gap relationships through photography and personal writing.
Created in collaboration with former older partners, the series reflects on intimacy, vulnerability, power, and the social perceptions that shape these connections. Moving beyond stereotypes, the work opens a nuanced conversation about desire, agency, and the ways in which love can exist outside normative expectations.
The work was recently featured in LOVE, the latest publication by the femxphotographers collective, which was published by Hatje Cantz and edited by Charlotte Cotton.
Lena Holzer is an artist, writer and designer based in Vienna. She researches how societal norms of capitalist patriarchy relate to our behaviour as individuals, particularly in regard to intimacy, agency, and The Erotic. She raises this question against the backdrop of her personal relationships. In the process of making work, she creates ambiguous social settings and enters confrontative situations with (ex-)lovers, friends, neighbours, acquaintances and strangers, which she navigates and documents through photography and auto-ethnographic writing. She graduated from the MA Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where she currently teaches.