A female figure is seated on a chair by herself. She wears a low-cut top and a miniskirt. A lot of skin is shown. She has a graceful smile. She has lip gloss on. Her body is curvilinear. This description can be read as provocative for average straight male figures. In this series, I’m exploring the idea that female sensuality does not mean inviting. Through portraits of female figures delving into sexy looks printed turned into collages, intervened with spikes, nails, and photos of roses, representing thorns, I create a physical and harmful barrier to those female bodies. This barrier, which ideally would be consent, will be materialized with sharp-pointed objects protecting the women’s bodies.
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With collage techniques, I play with the ambiguities, forming distorted women. This refers to the layers often erased by men when they objectify women, often seen as parts, rather than a whole complex human organism. But it also relates to the differences between self-perception and the viewer’s point of view; the tension that triangles how she sees herself, how they see her.