Paris Photo Week: Hockett’s Power’s Afterglow Featured in “Sex and Politics”
Sex and Politics
Bastille Design Center, Paris
13–16 November 2025
Curated by Danila Tkachenko and Slavica Veselinović
Presented by Art-Icon, 74 Bd Richard-Lenoir, 75011 Paris
art-icon.org
Power’s Afterglow was exhibited in Sex and Politics, a curated group exhibition presented during Paris Photo Week. The show explored the charged intersections of sexuality, representation, and power in contemporary photography, bringing together an international roster of artists whose work engages the body, desire, and the cultural ideologies that shape them.
The full list of exhibiting artists is available on the Art-Icon website: https://www.art-icon.org/paris-2025
As Vogue Adria noted in its coverage, sexuality is never simply private. It is shaped by culture, regulated by systems of power, and revealed through the ways individuals desire, resist, and express themselves. Fantasy and taboo often expose what societies attempt to control or conceal, making sexuality a lens for understanding political life today.
In Power’s Afterglow, sparks drift through smoke like the last trace of something intense — part brilliance, part dissolution. The work plays with the idea of an afterglow as both political and erotic: the remnants of power after upheaval and the lingering heat after desire. Light, haze, and motion turn that moment into something both bodily and cosmic, a brief transition where power loosens and energy shifts.
Hockett’s contribution to Sex and Politics offered a visual reflection on the exhibition’s broader themes, situating the photograph within an ongoing international dialogue around representation, desire, and the politics of seeing.