Biography
Coming from a photographic background, my work entails vision and imagery, although it is not limited to it. I am particularly interested in exploring visual representation of women, within western society in past and present times. What leads my research is to try to create connections between the dynamics of power at play within gender visual representation and the repetition and reinforcement of gender stereotypes and roles. How does it subconsciously contribute to current ideologies and myths?
[Understanding genres as mainly performative, I wonder how images, as mechanical reproducible goods, are still contributing by reinforcing stereotypes.]
Mainly feeling debunked by images of women in the mainstream, while comparing them to my experience as a human being, I am interested in the relation between the image and the psyche, how visual representations contribute to shape the psychic image we have of ourselves and that we project onto others.
On this matter, I am particularly interested in the process of creation of the images as a mean of power. The relationship at work amongst the photographer, the audience and the subject photographed, engraves the gaze upon which the subject is outlined. Is it possible to re-distribute equally the imbalance amongst those three actors?
Within this relationships of power, what happens when the subject portrayed is physically invisible although experienced? What is its relation with the visible? And, does its exclusion from the visible realm, affects its hierarchical position? How can we as artists give voice, make visible, something that is not?
The work, mainly, but not only, photographic, attempts to overturn psychic images of ourselves derived from shared, accepted, collective imagery, by means of paradoxes, hiperboles or literal explanations logic puns, which aim to uncover embedded images meaning.
Sometimes, it invokes a phantasy or a narrated world which intertwines psychoanalysis, language and symbols, in relation to the individuation and description of the self, from autobiographical point of departure.
