A Two Way

Helena Roig
2021

A two way (2021) is a body of work made in dialogue. Questioning power relations generated around and dictated by the camera, Helena Roig Prats (ES/NL) and Moon Baby (ES/NL) expose their experience as sex workers while creating content for Moon Baby’s OnlyFan account. How do we reflect our intimate selves in a camera transmitted to others?

"As a child, I spent my afternoons playing at my family’s factory, where we made blinds. The walls were covered by calendars of naked women, some commissioned by my grandfather. One morning, when the thirty men started their shift, the women were not naked anymore. I had drawn underwear for all of them with a permanent marker. As a child I thought it unfair, that those women were left there, standing naked. They were being watched over and over until the point that the paper even started fading. These early interactions with objectification, the photo, and the body. I began to develop a project relating photography to sex work. I asked my friend Moon Baby if she wanted to collaborate. She was very enthusiastic about it. She only had a requirement: helping her create content for her OnlyFans account. I accepted." — Helena Roig.

About the artist:
My process is always driven by collaboration and community-building processes. My practice is informed by a response to the perverse relationship between the photographic medium, power, and consent. I want to use the camera to reverse and deconstruct ideas of the gaze. I'm based between Barcelona (ES) and The Hague( NL).