Reba Maybury

Enlightenment to Entitlement
Lecture by Reba Maybury
December 9, 2024, 6 pm – Angewandte, painting department, room 623, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

In the lecture Enlightenment to Entitlement, Maybury will discuss her practice as an artist and dominatrix and how she is interested in manipulating the terms of the sexual contract to push the limits of female power away from just being a man’s fetish and into something more solid – an artwork.

Afterwards, the publication From Paris With Love will be launched, published on the occasion of the exhibition From Paris With Love: The Book at Tiny Mutual Admiration Societies.

Reba Maybury is an artist, writer and dominatrix sometimes working under the name Mistress Rebecca. Her work explores the tension between her perceived strength as an object of fantasy and how through the reality of sex work she attempts to turn this power into something tangible. Much of her art practice is physically created by her submissive’s through her direction as a way to further the complicated imbalances of labour under sex work, gender and entitlement and an attempt to empower her further than the mens desires, leaving her with more than just a payment from them. Her first novella is named Dining with Humpty Dumpty (2017) and more recently she published Faster than an erection (2021). Themes of capital, labour, sexuality, female perversion, desire, banality, pleasure, bureaucracy as torture and humiliation are essential themes to her practice.