RACHAEL MCARTHUR - EXPOSURE INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL

Hot Dreams is a performance-based photography project exploring my sexuality through female masking and the construction of ultimate adult fantasy lands. It is a celebration of my liberation as a woman in kink and it is a way to explore empowerment through becoming an object of desire. I represent my kink through the use of role play, costuming and locations. This work allows me to challenge my sexuality as I switch between submissive and dominant. I use my character, Blanche Dumont, to represent the freedom of my sexual choices and to dictate how my kink will be represented. I created a fantasy world where exploiting myself is the empowerment. I use the spaces and my body to direct my own fantasy and live out my desires.

BIOGRAPHY

Rachael McArthur is a lens-based artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design University with a BFA in Photography and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA. In her work she believes in having her hand involved in each image, from the creation of the backdrops to creating props and sculptures to photograph. Her work explores themes of femininity, sexuality and fantasy.