Mistress Rebecca’s Flag was created by a submissive graphic designer at the direction of Maybury. Replacing the hammer and sickle of the communist emblem with a whip and judge’s gavel, the work reimagines a symbol of power through the lens of female dominance. With this flag, Maybury leans into the sensationalism that often surrounds her practice, proposing a provocative vision of what an ideology of female supremacy might look like.

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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.

Maybury has recently exhibited at Ca’Bucarri, Venice, IT; LC Queisser, Tbilisi, GE; SIMIAN, Copenhagen, DK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, IT; Luma Westbau, Zurich, CH; HFKD, Holstebro, DK; Company Gallery, New York; Arcadia Missa, London, UK; and in group shows at Målmo Kunstmuseum, Målmo, SE; Sentiment, CH, Switzerland; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL; Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA, Bordeaux, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; P.P.O.W., New York, US; and Karma International, Los Angeles, US.