Nagie / Nudes

The upcycled and hand-made photo collages represent a deliberate blurring of traditional boundaries between gender and species, replaced by a celebration of freedom, power, and a quest to uncover the repressed, devalued, and forbidden.

Nagie/Nudes series reject conventional norms of representation, particularly those shaped by patriarchal and fetishistic perspectives in the visual arts.

"This is a very pleasing photograph of a beautiful girl."

The Technique of Nude Photography was a two-volume photography manual published in London in the 1950s. Inside:  photographs of women, accompanied by instructions on how to photograph them and numerous comments on the assets and “defects” of very similar, standardised and objectified bodies - another example of the fetishising, paternalistic and patriarchal male gaze in the visual arts. 

"Very few models have a perfect bust."

In an act of rebellion, I disassembled the publication and used its remnants to construct new images, grounded in a personal canon of beauty inspired by mythologies and indigenous belief systems. The resulting collages reflect a process of liberation, dismantling conventional distinctions of gender and species in favor of celebrating wildness, autonomy, and a search for what has been repressed or devalued.

"The head was purposely allowed to go into shadow to give emphasis to the rest of the figure."

All colleges were created using upcycled materials - specifically, old books and discarded papers - aligning with my critique of overproduction, waste, and resource overexploitation. This approach positions the work within the broader context of sustainable artistic practice, where the reuse of found materials becomes a critical response to the environmental and socio-economic challenges of contemporary consumer culture. 

In my artistic research, I focus on the analysis of archival images, especially those related to the depiction of women. In the process of deconstruction and reinterpretation, I question canons, seeking liberation from cultural constraints in favor of individual emancipation.  My previous projects have included processing anatomical atlases, as well as ethnographic and medical archives. Currently, as part of my dissertation, I am focusing on the representation of women and non-male entities in various religious systems.