THE BODY WE INHABIT

The body we inhabit is a photo series exploring female identity through the body, sexuality, and imagery. Started in 2020, it examines how sociocultural and political paradigms shape women's self-perception, behavior, and societal acceptance.

The Body We Inhabit (2020–2025)

The Body We Inhabit is a photographic series that explores the construction of female identity through the body, sexuality, and popular imagery. Initiated in 2020, the series examines how sociocultural and political paradigms shape women's bodily identity by, influencing self- perception, behavior, and societal acceptance.

At its core, The Body We Inhabit is a visual essay on womanhood and bodily autonomy, challenging archetypes like the virgin, the whore, and the muse. It highlights the societal denial of women's multiplicity and reclaims space for complexity and self-definition. The photographic act becomes an intimate exchange—marked by vulnerability, seduction, and mutual projection—where the photographer and the model merge into a shared fictional character.

This project stems from a deeply personal journey. Having grappled with eating disorders for over 24 years, the series emerges from a fascination—an obsession, even—with the way women perceive and inhabit their own bodies through the lens of desire pleasure and sexual expressions.

The project investigates clothing as a symbolic tool of transgression and as a modifier. Through decontextualization and reinterpretation, these garments become devices of empowerment, reconfiguring the female body and challenging normative representations. Layers, ties, transparencies, and drapes are recurring visual elements.

The camera becomes a tool to reclaim the female gaze, positioning the photographer between the subject and the viewer as a disruptor of the patriarchal narratives that have historically dictated how women should be seen.This intimacy creates a dialogue where sensuality, desire, and self-awareness converge.

Through this work, the female body is portrayed as unapologetic, free, and powerful, confronting the viewer with a direct and unflinching gaze. There is a claim that resonates in unison:  I am here.