I Sat On Something That Reminded Me of You, 2002
In some of these photos, Sassen explores her sexuality, staging herself in poses that are both sensual and comical. She thus liberates herself from the still-predominant codes of the male gaze, in which women are displayed as an erotic object. ‘I wanted to regain power over my own body. With a man behind the camera, a sort of tension always develops, which is often about eroticism, but usually about power,’ says Sassen in 2017’s Loss and Longing by Robbert Ammerlaan
Photograph: Viviane Sassen and Stevenson
