photoproject on body shame, construction of beauty and fairy tales.

SELF PORTRAIT

"Is body hair in every sense so utterly irrelavant that there is nothing to be said about it other than brief and repetitive instructions on how to remove it?" Karin Lesnik-Oberstein.

It's not about advocating to return the female body to a some a priori "natural" body. It's neither about claiming that women should stop removing body hair or not wearing make-up. It is about choise.The choise to love, accept, respect and inhabit my body (hair) as I like. No, I am not convinced that in order to become a beautiful and desired woman, I need to repeat with patience these rituals of "deforestation"of my armpits, face, legs. I am convinced, instead,  that my hair is part of my body. I am convinced that my body is the perfect temple in which I live; a temple in constant transformation, based on my own needs and desires. I am the only one to own it and have the right to do whatever I want with it.

The series of "UnBecoming" is about body hair, rituals of "deforestation" and how they play significant role to the construction of femininity and sexual identity.