Den Nordiske Ambassade
presents

Victoria Verseau (SE)
Cassie Augusta Jørgensen (DK)
‘REFRAMING THE GAZE’
22. Aug — 10. Okt, 2026
Vernissage/Opening: 22. aug 2pm

Special Screening:
‘Trans Memoria’, Victoria Verseau
Moved to Frederiksø at 14:30.
(Opening day only)


A gaze is never neutral

Film does not merely reflect our ideas about gender and identity; it also helps shape them. Through the images and narratives that surround us, we learn to see the world through a gaze that influences how we perceive and understand ourselves and others.

The exhibition Reframing the Gaze brings together two video works that explore what happens when the direction of the gaze is reversed—when the camera changes hands, and the person who was once the subject of someone else’s story becomes the one telling their own.

In Slit Your Click, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen reinterprets the iconic museum scene from Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980). Drawing on a film-historical tradition in which female sexuality and trans identity have been staged through a sexualised and controlling gaze, the work examines how the gaze shapes our understanding of gender, identity, and power. By rewriting the original scene, Jørgensen allows the figure who was once looked at to take on the role of the one who looks back, challenging the power structures that underpin the gaze itself.

In Rooftop, Victoria Verseau explores the relationship between the camera’s gaze and the way we look at ourselves. Alone in a hotel room, she performs in front of the camera, alternately looking into the lens and at her own reflection in the mirror. In the encounter between these two gazes, a space emerges where identity is not only something that is seen, but something that can be tested, performed, and shaped. Drawing on popular culture’s internalised images of femininity, Verseau investigates how we learn to see ourselves through the images and narratives that surround us, and how the camera can simultaneously become a tool for reclaiming control over our own image.

Reframing the Gaze is not only about seeing through a different gaze, but about the right to define your own story.

Supported by the Danish Art Foundation.

@Victoria Verseau
@Cassie Augusta Jørgensen