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On washing down the mockery and suffering inflicted on women by the patriarchy with a glass of red wine.
When Lolly May signed up for Baignade Interdite, she told me she likes a glass of red wine in the bath. That was all I needed. Bath, water, wine… Jesus! I was raised a hardcore atheist, so I explored religion very carefully, but this Jesus is different. She doesn’t care about sins, shame or guilt. She does whatever she wants because she has suffered enough.
Lolly May has a very decadent red wine bath, ditching the glass and good manners to drink straight from the bottle and let it flow down her chest. The crown of thorns, the height of Bible fashion, originally represents the suffering and mockery inflicted on Jesus by the Romans. In 2026, it represents the suffering and mockery inflicted on women by the patriarchy. And wasn’t it a woman who gave birth to Jesus, and so gave him the power to turn water into wine? She was onto something.
One of the easiest, simplest shoots of the series, but the message is so strong.
Part of Baignade Interdite, a surrealist photography series shot entirely in a bathtub in North London by Pauline Di Silvestro.
Fine art A3 print. Limited edition of 5 copies only. £75.
Free UK shipping. EU shipping £10.
On washing down the mockery and suffering inflicted on women by the patriarchy with a glass of red wine.
When Lolly May signed up for Baignade Interdite, she told me she likes a glass of red wine in the bath. That was all I needed. Bath, water, wine… Jesus! I was raised a hardcore atheist, so I explored religion very carefully, but this Jesus is different. She doesn’t care about sins, shame or guilt. She does whatever she wants because she has suffered enough.
Lolly May has a very decadent red wine bath, ditching the glass and good manners to drink straight from the bottle and let it flow down her chest. The crown of thorns, the height of Bible fashion, originally represents the suffering and mockery inflicted on Jesus by the Romans. In 2026, it represents the suffering and mockery inflicted on women by the patriarchy. And wasn’t it a woman who gave birth to Jesus, and so gave him the power to turn water into wine? She was onto something.
One of the easiest, simplest shoots of the series, but the message is so strong.
Part of Baignade Interdite, a surrealist photography series shot entirely in a bathtub in North London by Pauline Di Silvestro.
Fine art A3 print. Limited edition of 5 copies only. £75.
Free UK shipping. EU shipping £10.
