Sorties No. 1 - Michela Zoppi from the sheer pleasure of

from the sheer pleasure of Ottoline Morrell's lavish dresses to the clashing self-consciousness of Virginia Woolf's orange stockings

UK) lives and works in London

Princeton University Press

alongside a photo diary of process images and personal archive

the project supports innovation and knowledge exchange in the co-creation and circulation of contemporary visual art

Sorties No. 1 - Michela Zoppi from the sheer pleasure ofSorties first issue, titled This is not just an image. This is not a just image, explore how images of women are historically shaped by a male dominated gaze that positions them as objects of desire. By questioning whether framing gender through oppositional binaries reinforces these very power structures, representation is shown to be non neutral, as images repeat and reshape meanings already embedded within cultural and ideological systems. The