OLIVIA BAES is a French-American multi-disciplinary artist living and working between Spain and the United States. Her work interrogates female objectification and the male gaze through the mystical lens of an often symbolic space. The daughter of the late James Baes (1936-2017), a renowned fashion and erotic photographer who was active from the 1950s to the 1980s, and his muse, Olivia became the curator of the James Baes Foundation before his death. She is currently preparing an exhibition and book of her father’s work with the help of the Hugot Photo Agency in Paris. She is also the co-translator of Marguerite Duras’s second novel The Easy Life (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Me & Other Writing (Dorothy Project, 2019) and is currently working on two new Duras co-translations for Inpatient Press (NYC, USA) and Simon & Schuster (London, UK). She is also in the final stages of writing a Cahier for Sylph Editions on voyeurism in translation with a particular focus on Marguerite Duras (The Beholder, forthcoming in 2025) and developing her first feature film entitled Sirena, co-produced by 15L Films (Barcelona, Spain) and Bocalupo Films (Paris, France). Her writing and translations have previously appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,  Words Without Borders, Hopscotch Journal, Two Lines Journal, and EuropeNow.