She’s also an art historian and photographer, working on sexuality, identity and the subconscious through landscape and street photography. Her “Lust for Life” series, homage to the Iggy Pop song, deals with rebellion and seduction. “I use narrative photography to explore the multiple levels of play and interpretation of the image,” she says. “I play with the ambivalence of photography, its theatricality, on the border between the banal and fiction, staging shots of couples in social or seductive settings. I propose a re-reading of subjects borrowed from painting (the cheater, chess, the seductress) within an everyday context. Staging the ancient game of seduction in a contemporary context evokes a play between subject and camera (the mirror), subject and photographer, subject and viewer, and out of all this a strangeness is born. You’re walking a tightrope, it’s the in between.”

Inspired by Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord and Hans Belting, she uses the collective and subconscious codes of our patriarchal and commercial society to alter meaning. “I’m interested in reversals, shifts in meaning, norms and power, as in the domination of men over women, masses over individuals, terrorist groups over global media powers, the dictatorship of appearance and fantasy on being. We’re in flux, in moving relationship to an uncertain world.”