A Body of Mirrors

A Body of Mirrors was a solo exhibition examining the professional dominatrix as a site of physical and psychological projection—a figure through whom desire comes to see itself.

Presented across ten large- and medium-format analog prints at Stück, the series explores what happens when the body is encased in latex: the submissive gaze encounters a high-gloss surface where their own reflection is held, distorted, and returned. The work stands as an intimate study of posture, surface, and power dynamics, grounded in authentic community representation.

Shot entirely from within alternative and sex-work-adjacent communities rather than through an external lens, the series rests on a foundational protocol of trust. Subjects held total ownership over their representation—styling themselves, choosing the environment, and negotiating the exact boundaries of what was surrendered to the frame. The resulting images are collaborative by method and authored by proximity.

“Pretty is easy. Sexy is easy. What interested us was everything that exceeded those expectations: awkwardness, tenderness, humour, vulnerability, love.”

in conversation with GATA

“[The subjects] are transgressive aliens and monsters creating and existing in their own realities, refusing to comply with patriarchal Western conventions around gender roles and beauty standards.”

Hannah Louise

Press

With

The people who made this work.

• Silver Lowe
• Mz Cherry Mirage
• Mistress Nalini Westwood & Caspian
• Yang Lou (Midnight in Shanghai)
• Meat Instrument
• Miss Lupa Mannara
• Mistress Why
• Miss Betty Rage

Curated by Barbara Kaczmarczyk · STÜCK London