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I Climbed Across My Two Little Mountaintops

“I Climbed Across My Two Little Mountaintops” is the product of my research work and artistic practice on the female breasts.

The work consists of a photographic series, gifs and video performances.

I looked at the political, religious and art history of the Western Civilization’s culture and the ways they formed the perception of the female breasts.

I used my own body as a field of experimentation since my identity as a woman has been shaped by the way my body is perceived in the society that I have been raised and lived/live in.

I used references and symbolisms from Christianity - and more specifically from Saint’s Agatha story - and I transformed the breasts into an object of worship. They became the protagonists of my work. They existed either as an image or as a notion.

I aimed to present alternative narrations on my breasts. I wanted to deconstruct their notion and to be able to see them as an entity that defines my identity as a woman.

I aimed to deconstruct the image of the breasts and their stereotypical connotations by creating a dialogue between the subject and the medium.

The visual identity of the breasts was in a continuous transition. The breasts became a photograph, the photograph became an object, the object became a breast and then they became a photograph again.

My attempt to introduce playfulness and humor, to the work, led me into the creation of the gifs “Lost in Flesh”. The viewer can literally be lost into an environment dominated by pale flesh and breasts.

Communion

Crucifixion

Lost In Flesh

A series of gifs portraying the breast as an autonomous being. Flesh and nipples rolling and falling in and out the frame blending into kaleidoscopic environments.