THE BODY WE INHABIT

For over 24 years, I grappled with eating disorders, and this series is related to the fascination, even the obsession for the concept of identity and the questioning of how women perceive and define ourselves in our own bodies

THE BODY WE INHABIT 

(2020- ongoing) 

“The body we inhabit” is a portrait photo series which I started in 2020 as an exploration bridging my fashion commissions and my personal work.

For over 24 years, I grappled with eating disorders, and this series is related to the fascination, even the obsession for the concept of identity and the questioning of how women perceive and define ourselves  in our own bodies

What started as a question has now become a conversation involving concepts as beauty, vulnerability, youth, pureness, seduction, fertility, pleasure, and the complexity that comes out of confronting their opposite concepts.

It has become a recurring quest in my work  to understand and redefine the narratives surrounding self perception, the self image, the social constructs and power dynamics.

On the other hand, the concepts  surrounding women and the imaginary that they represent has been part of a historic dichotomy, from the ancestral cosmogony of the ancient peoples to the myths, the “Madonna- Whore complex “ to the different archetypes and  approaches embodied around her.

Visually, the symbols can shape the local and global imagination. In this sense, in my work, I incorporate allusions of  women’s body representations  and bring them to contemporary images, simultaneously working with their inherent duality.

In my pictures, when the women see the observer is  a “confrontational action” in which they are not just seen as the object or the muse, denoting a position of consciousness and establishing the dialogue : “I see you too”.