“Generic Mannequin Gets Flayed” is a corporate term for “image-free” digital representations of bodies that are examined for risks and anomalies during airport body scans. Zach Blas worked with this non-image in his installation “SANCTUM” (2018), a security-detention-center-meets-sex-dungeon environment that probes the dynamics of power, exposure, and desire inherent in surveillance and predictive policing through the lens of BDSM. Rendered silent and pliant through biometric capture, we see the mannequin bound, whipped, contained, and harvested for use in the creation of new weapons and sex toys. By invoking queer aesthetics and consensual power play, Blas leaves the question of complicity up for debate — are the mannequins prisoners, sex slaves, worshippers, or experimental test subjects? The work’s ambiguity problematizes our symbiotic relationship with technology, examining the nature of personal agency, surveillance, and control in a world shaped by data mining and social engineering.