A model who became an artist by taking guerrilla fashion pictures of
herself in boutique dressing rooms, Belarusian Elle Muliarchyk has an
unsentimental approach to female physicality. “I’m
fascinated with a woman’s body, but I see it more as a
material—totally raw and foreign and pregnant with fantastical
possibilities,” she says. It seems fitting, then, that she used
her partners’ naked bodies to re-create her own “very
sexual, visual, and weird” dreams. One of her photos features a
(taxidermied) wolf hovering over Aneta Bartos’s crotch, and
another shows Yana Toyber with a fire-spitting vagina. “A friend
said that picture is very religious,” says Muliarchyk.
“It’s a burning bush!”
November 2010