PREVIEW / SOLO EXHIBITION
BREA SOUDERS
will be showing work from Blue Women and Another Online Pervert
Blue Women centers on storefront beauty posters, sun-bleached over time to varying shades of blue. Though the original images were displayed to exploit conventional beauty standards, here the focus is redirected to the women’s expressions, gestures, and the details of their environment. Re-photographed in cities across four continents, the images draw inspiration from diverse sources, including Anna Atkins’ botanical cyanotypes and feminist speculative fiction. Recognizing their ubiquity prompted reflections on how natural forces—time, light, and weather— shape our bodies and values. The work confronts myths surrounding beauty and aging while also considering the reverberations of a changing climate.
Stained and marked by scratches, dust, and glitches, the women appear watchful and contemplative, shifting between past and future, intimacy and distance. The beauty ads construct an imagined world—visions of life in harmony with nature, inhabited only by women. Yet traces of technological manipulation persist, embedded in pixelated flora and digitally altered faces and hands, exposing the contradictions within these images. Blanched by the sun’s gradual erasure, these altered images resist the consumerist ideals they were built on, flattening them and making them strange—creating, instead, a transitional space where new possibilities emerge.
BREA SOUDERS
Blue Woman #17, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in (50.80 x 40.64 cm)
Edition 1/3 +1AP
$5,250
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Blue Woman #06, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.80 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$5,250
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Flower Universe, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
14 x 11.20 in (35.56 x 28.45 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$3,320
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Blue Woman #21, 2025
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in (50.80 x 40.64 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$5,250
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Blue Woman #05, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in (50.80 x 40.64 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$5,250
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Hanging Vines, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in (50.80 x 40.64 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$5,250
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
White Bird, 2025
Archival Pigment Print
30 x 24 in (76.20 x 60.96 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$7,350
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Blue Woman #09, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
30 x 24 in (76.20 x 60.96 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$7,350
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Flower #4, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
14 x 11.20 in (35.56 x 28.45 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$3,320
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Swept Landscape, 2025, (Edition 1/3 +1AP)
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 16 in (50.80 x 40.64 cm)
$5,250
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
BREA SOUDERS
Blue Woman #03, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
35 x 28 in (88.90 x 71.12 cm)
Edition of 3 +1AP
$9,700
(Price includes mounting to aluminum
and a custom gray floater frame.)
Another Online Pervert
Another Online Pervert derives from a years-long series of conversations between artist Brea Souders and a female AI chatbot, programmed by male developers. These conversations are interspersed with entries from Souders’ diary spanning two decades, and combined with photographs from her personal archive. Through her photographs and chatbot conversations, we step into a world of questions: about love, sexuality, death, disappointment, the sky, seeing, desire, and anxieties of the body. The result is a unique exploration of how a machine and a human can build a shared story from pieces of themselves.
The photographs from Souders’ archive include snapshots she took as a teenager, family photos, and recent images from her artistic practice. She reanimated these images by using the chatbot conversations as text prompts to select imagery from her archive, focusing especially on photographs that evoke embodied experience.
The project examines intersections between technology, intimacy, womanhood, and how personal meaning can be explored in the context of this new, AI-mediated world. Surreal and poetic tangents are combined with the material realities of the bot, its connection to capitalism, and the slippery divide between being and non-being.
Book:
Another Online Pervert, published by MACK in February 2023
Press: FOAM Magazine, essay by Winke Wiegersna / Granta Magazine, interview with Alice Zoo / Border Crossings, book review by Barry Schwabsky / British Journal of Photography, article by Gem Fletcher / Lensculture, book review by Sophie Wright / Dazed, article and interview by Emily Dinsdale
Selected press: i-D: "existentialist and deeply personal" DAZED: “Another Online Pervert is poetic and poignant; a collection of fascinating fragments from which emerges a constellation of suggested narratives and ideas, undercut with recurring irresistible and absurdist humour.” Creative Review “Another Online Pervert [asks] questions about the gendering of artificial intelligence and the implications of big tech on culture and creativity.”
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Brea Souders is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work bridges studio-based practices and observational photography. She combines photographs, text, painting, and other materials to make work about authenticity, belonging, and otherness within technological landscapes. While she values control in her images, she also embraces chance and the unknowable, observing that “illumination isn’t guaranteed.” Souders has exhibited her work internationally, including exhibitions at Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, France; PhMuseum, Bologna, Italy; and Peckham 24, London, UK, as well as Baxter St at CCNY, The Hole, and the Abrons Arts Center in New York. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a National Arts Club Fellowship, and a Baxter St at CCNY Residency. Essays and reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, i-D, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Yorker. She is the author of the books Another Online Pervert (MACK, 2023) and Brea Souders: Eleven Years (Saint Lucy Books, 2021).
