Lavinia de Rothschild & #Posthuman
My work exists in the space between presence and disappearance, between what is seen and what is deliberately obscured. Through photography and conceptual interventions, I explore the fragile boundary between control and resistance, questioning how power shapes identity, memory, and perception.
We, as humans, have always worn masks—sometimes to protect ourselves, sometimes to conform, sometimes because we no longer know who we are without them. We construct identities, layering them over our truth, until even we begin to mistake the mask for the self. But beneath it all, the question lingers: Who are we when the masks are stripped away? My work seeks to explore this tension, the blurred line between what we show and what we hide, between the self we create and the self we fear to reveal.
Each image is meticulously staged, without Photoshop or AI, using only physical elements to craft a visual language that speaks of transformation, control, and displacement. The figures in this work are bound, veiled, fragmented, suspended in states of uncertainty. A pacifier fused with a bullet. A burning newspaper clutched in unseen hands. A gas-masked figure breathing beside a fragile plant. These images do not impose answers; they hold the weight of unspoken histories, the silence of erasure.
I am drawn to the tension between stillness and rupture, between concealment and exposure. Fire, fabric, and distortion repeat as motifs—not as decoration, but as confrontation. The act of obscuring becomes a language of its own. What does it mean to exist in a world that refuses to see?
The #Posthuman concept as a work does not seek comfort. It is an act of witnessing, an insistence on presence in the face of absence. In a time where truth is rewritten, these are images are created to resist vanishing. These are not just photographs. They are fragments of silence waiting to be heard.