The Red Room

The Red Room

The surreal nature of seemingly random elements thrown together plays with the ideas of connectivity between scenario, imagination and perception.

The images take us on a journey of “what if” and “what for” in this theatrical body of work. 

The overtly sexualised latex clad women are empowered femme fatales as opposed to disenfranchised victims. Each scenario sees male associated props and elements reworked and owned by the female character. They challenge learned perceptions of masculinity and turn the symbolism against itself in these imagined scenarios. 

The visually sensual and seductive images ask us to envisage a scene in which the tables are turned from victim to aggressor. We are left simultaneously contemplating if this diametrical shift in perception is for better or worse. Is the femme fatale any better positioned to utilise the power shift for positive gain? Is the inherent act of subversion in itself a moral trap and in effect the creation of a crimson cell of institutionalised conventions and inherited behaviour? 

Does there remain a case for simply re appropriating masculinity or do the societal signifiers of male association necessitate their own existence but within the framework of a feminist construct?