Sometimes the newly ‘objectified’ image is propped up by a rock. “I want it to be physically imposing, like theatrical props,” Pascual says, reminding us that the photographs she uses are already constructions – positioned, framed, posed, lit. I am simultaneously reminded of a hybrid space, part furniture showroom, part mausoleum – along with the game of wits, Rock, Paper, Scissors, in which, as one official rule dictates, ‘Paper wins against rock, loses to scissors, and stalemates against itself.’

William A Ewing