Made of Smokeless Fire weaves the personal and the political to explore the layered nature of LGBTQ+ identity as it unfolds in the shadow of dislocation, erasure, and marginalisation. Set in France, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe, and marked by pervasive Islamophobia in which queer Muslim lives are often rendered invisible, Lenain counters erasure through a deeply attentive and relational photographic approach. The work began as testimony and homage in the wake of the death of her uncle who grew up gay in a Muslim Algerian family, opening outward from personal loss into a collective portrait of community. The individuals pictured navigate complex terrain, some distanced from family, others reinterpreting cultural inheritance, many forging networks of safety and affirmation, as they negotiate life within overlapping pressures of Islamophobia and queerphobia. Lenain's title Made of Smokeless Fire draws on the figure of the djinn in Islamic mythology, described as beings made of "smokeless fire" and understood as occupying a parallel realm — a metaphor for those whose existence resists categorisation and is shaped by what cannot be fully seen.