MIA DONAJ

Underwear as Outerwear (2025)

 Clothing exists at the boundary between the body and the world. Garments typically worn beneath clothing, bras, lingerie, and other intimate layers, are brought to the surface, reversing the expected order of dress.


As layers accumulate, clothing shifts from following the body to obscuring it, until the body is reconstructed symbolically on the surface of the clothes themselves.


Through accumulation and inversion, these garments move progressively further from the body they are designed to follow and begin to manufacture an entirely new body. 


The work plays with exhibitionism and voyeurism, offering the viewer increasingly visible signs of intimacy, and closeness while making the body itself increasingly inaccessible.

Residential Use (2025)

To occupy a place is to occupy a life. We move between immersion and observation, closeness and distance, sometimes participating fully in the world around us and sometimes experiencing it from its edges.


Presence is similarly unstable. It can exist without a visible body, lingering in the spaces we occupy and the traces we leave behind. The residue of a life is ephemeral, yet a space retains something of having been inhabited.


These photographs consider the shifting relationship between the self and its surroundings. Made from moments of intimacy, solitude, observation, movement, and experimentation, the work traces the experience of occupying a life that can feel at once immediate and strangely distant.

Split Screen Experiment (2024)

Two versions of the same person move through a shared domestic space, occupying the same moment without fully occupying it together. Ordinary gestures repeat, overlap, and occasionally fall into unexpected synchrony.


The work considers the strange distance that can exist within the self: the experience of being both participant and observer in one's own life. Through repetition and doubling, a familiar routine becomes an encounter with another version of oneself.

will i still be me? (2026)

Change is scary.


will i still be me? Follows a caterpillar navigating the uncertainty of metamorphosis. Faced with the possibility of becoming something unfamiliar, the caterpillar wonders what change and growing up might mean for who they are.


Through their transformation, they discover that change doesn’t erase who you are, it opens up possibilities for who you might become.


Change is scary, but it doesn’t have to be.



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