Abstract
The text is an analysis of Agnieszka Brzeżańska's photographs from the How To Shine In Public series, created in Tokyo in 1997–2001 in the context of the gaze theory as an objet petit presented by Jacques Lacan in Seminar XI of 1964 and the feminist deconstruction of psychoanalysis. I refer to the practice of écriture féminine as conceived by Hélène Cixous and its reformulation within the parler femme concept by Luce Irigaray. Both Lacan's theory and its feminist reformulation serve to rewrite the visual field of photo-graphics and the photographic series by Brzeżańska. I see in it the potential for the gaze to manifest itself as objet petit a, however, intercepted by the female subject, who is both the sender and the addressee of the visual expression.
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