Charlotte Colbert originally wanted to work in filmmaking. But the industry was relentless and the compensation meager, so she started writing and honing her photography skills in the time between jobs. She created a series of large, haunting triptychs with her black-and-white landscape photographs of a trip through Scotland. The work caught the eye of a London-based curator and led to Colbert’s first exhibition, at the Lichfield Studios, in Notting Hill, in 2011. It was a simple affair compared with her current Frieze London show, Dreamland Sirens, which incorporates sound, wearable art, and large sculptures. In this exhibition—centered on a towering metal sculpture of an eye (inspired by the Pool of Tears from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)—Colbert reimagines misogyny and our discomfort with the female body. A recurring motif in her work is a uterus, Pepto Bismol pink. Colbert finds the idea that a uterus is subversive “completely mind-boggling.” She says, “Your boss, everyone on earth, was in a uterus.” —Bridget Arsenault