Sonia works professionally as a nude model for painters. Here she reenacts a modeling session with her face obscured in post-production, foregrounding a practice where the body alone serves as the carrier of identity.

Drag Queen Alice Psycho poses with what she considers the bare minimum of artifice necessary to be in drag. Her corporeal presence embodies the assertion of her queer identity.

The Body as Both Object and Subject : both artists interrogate the body's dual status within economies of representation. Sonia's erasure of facial identity transforms the traditionally passive nude body into an assertive site of subjecthood. Alice enacts a parallel operation within drag's performative register: stripping to drag's essential threshold, she refuses ornamental spectacle, mobilizing her corporeal presence as active agent of queer self-determination.

When conventional signifiers are minimized or removed, the insistent materiality of the body itself emerges not as neutral canvas but simultaneously claimed, constructed, and asserted.