I photographed more than 100 women over the course of one year in the movie theaters in Vienna. Drawing inspiration from Hollywood’s silent film era, I was interested in the moving picture without sound, only depicting the complex but unique relationship between women through gesture and gaze only. Both photography and silent film highlights the idea that body language can tell a story without dialogue.
In this story, women come in and out of the light. They embrace one another and they observe. A unique experience at the crossroad of art and performance. They are portrayed intimately and delicately; with nudity as a symbol to signify primal emotion and reveal the vulnerable in the human. To bare oneself completely in front of another; to be naked is to be without disguise. This is a pursuit to visualize the female body free of stigma and taboo; to reclaim, and the audience to gaze with identification rather than possession, in the darkness of the cinema.
