Lately I’ve been dreaming in pink and blue

With "Lately I’ve been dreaming in pink and blue" I explore how it feels to be a woman today, delving into the societal constructs of gender roles in a patriarchat world.

"Lately I've Been Dreaming in Pink and Blue" is a photographic exploration, delving into the societal constructs of gender roles through symbolic imagery. Using the figure of the knight and his armor, I investigate the rigid frameworks that shape our identities, reflecting on how deeply ingrained norms, power dynamics, and historical categories influence our sense of self. In this work, the armor becomes a metaphor for the structures of patriarchy. The tight, confining systems that have defined expectations and behavior for generations. Through a series of carefully staged images, I depict these symbols of protection as both empowering and suffocating, inviting the viewer to consider the weight of these roles in modern society. The project addresses the tension between the strength we are told armor provides and the reality that it often confines us, shaping not only our interactions with others but our understanding of femininity and masculinity.

Through gestures and poses, I challenge the traditional associations of gender - pink and blue, soft and hard, weak and strong. It becomes a game with gender-specific norms, an act of appropriation, reversal, and role-playing, revealing the simple rules that patriarchy has taught us. My photographs aim to question what happens when these rigid categories blur, and how power, once symbolized by armor, can transform into a cage that restricts as much as it protects. In merging these contrasting elements, I hope to provoke reflection on the ways we construct and deconstruct identity, and how the shields we wear today may imprison us as much as they defend us. In developing this project, I collaborated only with female friends and my mum, the project is rooted in my own experience of growing up as a woman and informed by feminist and historic research that shaped its conceptual and visual direction.

The work becomes a collective exploration of how patriarchal structures shape our bodies, gaze, gestures, and sense of self. The armor in the images is not only a metaphor for individual imprisonment, but also for a shared burden. Through the recurring image of the same armor, the work transcends the individual and addresses collective realities shaped by social structures. Through this process, the act of photographing became an exchange: a way of recognizing common struggles while reclaiming softness, ambiguity, and strength on our own terms.