Dualism

by Olesja Brandt

This series of photographs explores dualism as an internal state rather than as a contrast of external roles. The feminine and the masculine here exist not as gender markers, but as two coordinate systems — vulnerability and control, intuition and structure, the physical and the social. They coexist within a single body, engage in dialogue, conflict, and temporarily reconcile. The heroine's image is deliberately split: reflection, divided outfit, changing attributes. Dress and suit, flower and strict line, bare skin and closed form — visual codes through which the process of self-identification unfolds. The mirror becomes a space of interaction. The project addresses the fragile balance between the internal and the imposed, between who a person is and who they have learned to be. Dualism here is not a conflict to be resolved, but a state in which genuine presence is possible. The series invites the viewer not to choose a side, but to linger in the moment between them.