“Little Women” by Andra Rahe

On Thursday, January 15, Andra Rahe’s solo exhibition Little Women will open at Draakoni Gallery. The exhibition will be on view until February 8, 2026.

Andra Rahe’s practice is defined by an empathetic investigation of marginality. Within the canon of art history and visual culture, the female body has predominantly been framed through sexualisation and objectification, while the male body has been positioned as a site of authority and dominance. In this exhibition, Rahe disrupts these conventions by positioning the male body as the marginalised subject.

The analogue photographic series Little Women investigates shifts in habitual regimes of looking. Rahe invites men from dating platforms, whose self-representation reflects alpha-masculine discourse, to take part in an exhibitionistic collaboration that documents their semi-erect genitalia while withholding identity. The camera establishes a distance that enables male vulnerability. The aim is not to replace the objectified woman with an objectified man, but to enact a shift.

Little Women does not propose normative definitions of masculinity or prescribe ways of viewing the male body. Instead, the exhibition considers what emerges when authority is no longer central to its representation. Rahe’s photographs do not negate strength, but suspend the imperative to perform it, creating space for intimacy, vulnerability, and human presence, qualities that are often relegated to the margins of art.

Andra Rahe (1996) is an Estonian photographer whose practice attends to the subtle structures of everyday life. Working through slowness, presence, and attentiveness, Rahe makes carefully composed and intimate images that invite empathetic engagement.

Her work delicately engages with cultural narratives, foregrounding gestures, details, and atmospheres that often remain unnoticed yet shape relations between people. Rahe’s lived experience, including living with a mobility disability, functions as a distinctive creative resource, enabling a nuanced engagement with both her subjects and their environments.

Rahe graduated from the Photography Department of the Pallas University of Applied Sciences and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in anthropology at the University of Tartu. Her project The Daycare Diary received the Public Choice Award at the 2025 Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award competition. As an artist, she documents marginalised communities with the aim of increasing their visibility and reflecting on ways of being human.

The opening of the exhibition is supported by Nudsist Drinks. 
Exhibitions at Draakon Gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Ministry of Culture, and Liviko AS.

Additional information:
Draakon Gallery
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