Uncovering the raw experience of objectification, Hinojosa’s “Pearl” utilises photography, installation, and performance to question the innate performativity of self by questioning the substance of the Western standards of class, gender, wealth. Hinojosa meets the viewer’s gaze with their own subjectivity and utilises the suspension of disbelief as a method of normalising the trans body and experience. Hinojosa reverses the viewer-viewed power dynamic by using the gaze as a weapon with which to reclaim the self.
The images consist of self portraiture created during the first year of Hinojosa's transition, some of which were collaborations with men with whom she had dress her according to their desires of how she should portray her femininity. The images slip between autobiography, and fiction, documenting a performance of the self which challenges the sexualization of her body.