Legs crossed, high heels, short skirt: this portrait immediately captures the viewer’s gaze, within a visual construction that unfolds between attraction and reflection.
Theresa Büchner’s Faustrecht series develops a narrative centered on the attire of flight attendants, isolating and fragmenting its details. In each work, characteristic elements such as heels, stocking-clad legs, skirts, and jackets emerge as the protagonists of a partial representation that nonetheless alludes to the broader context.
The entire cycle is rendered in black and white, a choice that removes one of the uniform’s most recognizable attributes—color, traditionally tied to the visual identity of airlines. Deprived of this dimension, attention shifts to form and movement, emphasized by an alternation of dot-like textures that recall painterly surfaces and lend the image an almost tactile quality. This visual language invites a less immediate, more analytical reading.
The project originates from the online circulation of images of female bodies, often extracted and decontextualized, becoming objects of collective fantasies and mechanisms of normalization. These fantasies are not neutral: they are intercepted and exploited within digital economies based on the production and sharing of explicit content.
Within this context, the uniform—originally conceived as a tool of standardization and control—undergoes a transformation. From a symbol of uniformity, it can also become a vehicle of self-determination, opening up possibilities for independence, including economic autonomy, that exist in tension with social expectations and institutional codes.
Theresa Büchner (1993) uses everyday narratives and shared imaginaries as a starting point for her artistic research, investigating behaviors and transformations in collective thought. Her work engages in a critical discourse that highlights the dynamics of power, representation, and desire within society.

Theresa Büchner, from the series Faustrecht, 2023
inkjet print,
126 x 178,2 cm

06/05/25