Lady Kunst
Art is identity
Jacqueline Delaye is a visual artist, photographer, and video artist. Originally from Mexico/France, she is based in Germany and works at the intersection of performative photography, self-portraiture, and feminist visual critique. Her practice focuses on staged images using everyday objectsâdolls, food, cleaning tools, costumesâto create powerful scenes that blend absurdity, irony, and symbolic depth.
For fifteen years, she devoted herself to motherhood and domestic life, raising her three daughters full-time. It was in that spaceâwithout a studio or recognitionâthat her artistic voice emerged. She began creating late at night, using her kitchen or laundry room as makeshift stages, and turning the fragments of daily life into materials for creation.
Her work has since evolved into a personal and political form of resistance, exploring the tensions between motherhood, desire, identity, gender roles, and symbolic violence. With a bold and kitsch visual language, her images confront viewers with uncomfortable beauty and poetic critique.
She has exhibited in independent spaces and festivals, and is currently developing the series Plastic Mother, a photographic project exploring the domestic body, femininity as performance, and the theatricality of care.
Her compositions incorporate everyday objects to challenge our perception of the reality around us. One senses an exploration of deep themes, such as self-perception, life, and death, within the context of the human experience and its transitions.
She uses the timer trigger of the camera, which is set to 10 seconds. This creates a symbiotic relationship between the camera and the human being, between the observer and the observed. She finds everyday objects that might otherwise go unnoticed and uses them to explore our perception of the world around us. This creative process is the foundation for the final outcome of her work.

Lady Kunst
Jacqueline Delaye has a multidisciplinary background based in social studies and arts. She studied Social Anthropology in Mexico city. Cinema and Tv in Barcelona and Art and Culture Management in Paris. She worked as a video artist and documentary filmmaker around Europe.
After living in different countries like USA, England, France, Spain, Italy Portugal and México Jacqueline moved to Berlin, Germany her home since 15 years.
in 2019 she moved for 4 years to the archipelago Azores, on the island of Sao Miguel, in order to take the inspiration of nature. Now she came back to the great city of Berlin to keep breathing the inspiration of human society.
I started in the art world when I was 19 years old. I had already taken photography courses and I was amazed by the visual and social part of the city where I lived, Mexico City, full of contrasts in both socioeconomic and visual aspects. Mexico is a place between hope and death. For this reason I decided to take the camera as my means of expression. I had the opportunity to work in different commercial audiovisual productions (advertising, independent films).
At the age of 21, I went to the city of Barcelona to do my audiovisual studies where I had the opportunity to be inspired by the best independent filmmakers and artistic currents. My work is a mixture of apathy, courage and desperation. In order better represent the political issues of the society, I had created the fictional figure of Lady Kunst.