The Gaze, 2026

By Marina Vasileva

In this project I collaborated with designer and photographer MARINA VASILEVA, by creating a mask as part of her photography series, The Gaze, and posing for the shoot.

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“Through staged photographic scenes, masks, mirrors, fashion, and constructed bodies, The Gaze examines the tension between beauty and vulnerability, investigates what remains of identity once the performance begins to collapse.”

“Daily life is a theatre. She built herself a mask to be able to perform, but hide underneath the sharp, strong, unbothered full with attitude face. The mask became a tool of survival within environments shaped by expectation and judgment. It became identity, but once in a while the performance started collapsing so she wasn’t able to hide anymore, didn’t want to”

- Marina Vasileva