"What is most deep is the skin" -  Gilles Deleuze.

It was from this sentence that I began to produce this photographic intervention work, in living supports such as leaves and flowers. I chose to work with embroidery (this manual technique traditionally taken as something feminine) to pierce and interfere in this nature, also very feminine. Ornamenting these elements and making them “more beautiful” leads us to a reflection on “beauty as something sacred”, which is intrinsic and natural to human beings. But it also leads to thinking of beauty as something painful, about the beauty standards, the cuts, scars and plastic surgery. This pain which is present not only in the feminine universe, but also in nature itself, with the growing devastation and annihilation of wilderness and all that is wild in us. While embroidering these living elements, I realized that the stitches became sutures that would deeply act upon that skin, resignifying a common everyday element in symbols of sexuality, embellishing, oppression and suffocation.

Exhibitions: ARTSY, SPOTTE ART NY,  FIO | SIN LOGO GALLERY 

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