Emily Rose’s work navigates the aesthetic power of femininity—its living force, its rhythms, its satire, its contradictions, and most importantly, its beauty. Working across photography, collage, film, and installation, she captures what is often overlooked, withheld, or intentionally obscured. Her pieces reclaim feminine presence from its frequent flattening or commodification, inviting the viewer into a fuller, more complex encounter with it.
Though not all of Emily’s work explicitly addresses chronic illness, her experience of living in slowness—of residing in mundane stillness and enduring physical, mental, and communal rupture—shapes her way of seeing. In a world built on speed and output, she dwells instead in subtlety, repetition, silence, and detail. Even in works that evoke pain or horror, beauty remains central—not to soften, but to affirm the richness of existence.
Every piece she makes—whether self-portrait, still life, abstraction, or installation—is in some way a reflection of self. Even when the body is absent, its trace remains. Her work becomes a mirror—reflecting the cycles of desire and depletion, revelation and restraint, of femininity as both force and feeling. It is, always, both femme and me.