Vex Ashley Filmes

Treating bodies like botany, in intense, investigative close up, scientifically graphic, reveals them at their most intimate but also maybe their...

Red light scatters across sparkled skin as a pair of eyes lure you closer to the screen

Connection through shattered mirrors, black paint, candles, and cold cement

The Proximity series explores a digital replication of intimacy. The intense closeness of the camera highlights interactions sometimes lost in...

Indulgence in it's first form

Sex 'fuses' bodies, entering, penetrating, consuming, holding, manipulating physical forms to remove any space left between us, pushing through...

Visual distortions mixed together providing and interconnectedness found only within another's embrace

A meditation on obscenity, censorship, the body, excess and restriction, fakery and reality. The series is based loosely around the alchemical...

The history of traditional portraiture was about status and branding. With Atrophy Portraits we break down the layers of constructed perfection....

Represented reflections of bodies linked in union and their spiritual connection.

This is an exploration of screens and how they translate the visceral flesh of sex and bodies and what that now means today in an age of digital...

A muted record of beginnings

The role of submissive, and the potential for transcendence in consensual degradation is powerful. Endurance is powerful. Subverting perfection is...

Wilhelm Reich's in The Function of the Orgasm theorised a powerful bioelectrical sexual life force he called orgone energy, it could be harnessed...

An exploration in narcissistic desire, a kind of autoeroticopsis in being the subject of desire for yourself.

The body and all it's interiors. Pushing back against the idolisation of the body as an immutable object to be sanitised and preserved. Not a doll to...

Moments only captured in the sun

Sleep is such a vulnerable state, it requires a complete letting go of control. Slipping out of waking consciousness into another world. A world...

Our bodies are conduits, sex is transference of energy. Eyes, mouths and orifices become blackholes against glittering skin, fluids dark against...

The blinding light of someone's adoration burns out their ability to see inherent human complexity and messy contradictions and hypocrisies.