Digital Photoperformance
Self-portrait, 2025

In this hyperreal and absurd scene, the woman holds a piece of raw meat as if it were an object of desire. There is no horror: there is hunger, irony, and an awakened conscience. She wears black, carries a Chanel bag, and her gesture is ambiguous-does she devour or represent? Behind, a field of cows grazing calmly. Luxury coexists with meat, domestication with the wild, the feminine with the animal. The designer bag becomes part of the cruel joke: what are we consuming? And who is consuming whom? The digital flowers, artificially scattered, highlight the contrast between nature and simulacrum. The grass is not natural. The woman is not quite natural either. She is an actress of modern desire.

Jacqueline Delaye is a Mexican visual artist based in Germany. Working across photography and video, her practice explores feminist themes through performative self-portraiture and staged scenes using everyday objects—dolls, cleaning tools, food, costumes. With a bold, kitsch visual language, she transforms domestic spaces into arenas of poetic critique and resistance.

After dedicating 15 years to full-time motherhood, Delaye began creating in the margins of domestic life—late at night, using her kitchen or laundry room as sets. Her work investigates the tensions between identity, motherhood, desire, and symbolic violence, turning the familiar into the uncanny and reclaiming narrative through images that are both absurd and powerfully intimate.

Art is revolution

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Art is not just a collection of skills!

My resume is as follows: a girl with a punk heart, born in a conservative city in Mexico, divorced parents, failed attempt at Catholic subversion by society. Escaped from the city of Guadalajara to Mexico City. At 18 (1996) moved to France (Macon), where I worked in the vineyards picking grapes. Returned to Mexico, started university studying social anthropology. I met a guy who immersed me in the world of art. We began a toxic but inspiring relationship in the dark, punk world. We went to Florence, Italy, where I worked at the San Lorenzo market selling jackets. Six months of emotional suffering because of my romantic weaknesses. I partied as hard as I could. I moved to Barcelona and studied video, film, and TV, as well as painting and drawing. I became increasingly attached to the art world and surrounded myself with artists. My artistic career began. I meet another guy and move with him to Bamberg, Germany, where I do some video work in different theaters and for various artists. I go to Hamburg and make a documentary for Angela Richter and several videos of her artistic performances in theaters. I go to Paris to study cultural and artistic management. There, among other things, I present an artistic video at a festival. I moved to Berlin and three months later I got pregnant by my current husband. I have three daughters and continue to do photography, painting, and videos as personal projects. I started a business that lasted four years, which I closed due to lack of attention to my daughters. I decided to devote myself to raising them and being a housewife. During all that time, art emerged from my veins.

Lady Kunst was born.