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(Ongoing) Image series:

Girl Be Your Perfect Self

  • Image from girl be your perfect self (ongoing, 2025) by Manshee Zheng. A stylized figure poses in a confined office booth, wearing a dress printed with the titular phrase. The work critiques hyper-femininity, self-curation, and performative identity.
  • From girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. Two styled figures lounge in transit seating, evoking themes of hyper-performance, artificial girlhood, curated intimacy, and the aesthetic of detachment in synthetic social environments.
  • From girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. A figure lies on the floor in sheer white layers and graphic tattoos, invoking themes of vulnerability, constructed identity, and bodily resistance in performative hyperfemininity.
  • From girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. Three figures entangle within a confined glass pod, styled in layered synthetics and fur. The image disorients, staging intimacy, alienation, and digital-age performance.
  • From girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. A skinny girl in green tights and a white top printed “Adore” hugs herself against a black brick wall, spotlighting vulnerability, self-surveillance, and commodified intimacy.
  • From girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. A girl in a white satin mini dress and sheer magenta tights leans into a black brick wall, evoking themes of fragility, fetishised posture, and the performance of compliance.
  • From girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. A girl lies on blue shag carpet, wearing sheer tights, black thong, and a shirt printed with leather gloves. The pose suggests fetish, vulnerability, and stylised submission.
  • From girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. A girl lies face-down on blue carpet. Tights read “HANDLE WITH CARE”; shirt shows printed leather gloves. Shot from above, evoking powerplay, compliance, and synthetic submission.
  • Fashion performance from girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. Model poses in sheer tights, bra over top, and heels in sterile office space—exploring femininity, objectification, and stylized detachment.
  • Model lies sprawled on angled black surface in mesh tights, cut-off denim shorts, and sheer black top. Part of girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng—exploring stylized exhaustion, objecthood, and constructed femininity.
  • Photographed figure fragmented by jagged acrylic mirrors, legs splayed under a metallic emergency blanket canopy. From girl be your perfect self (2025), Manshee Zheng. A sculptural tableau of collapse, surveillance, and mediated femininity.
  • Model reclines on concrete stairs in a white tube dress printed "GIRL BE YOUR PERFECT SELF" and "JPG", styled with furry boots and layered chain necklace. From girl be your perfect self (2025) by Manshee Zheng. Aestheticized posturing meets text-body