with her i: self-portrait


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This performative video installation was created as part of With Her I: The Curse of Menarche and reflects the personal roots behind the wider project. It began from my own experience of trauma and the urge to confront the silences surrounding the female body, vulnerability, and shame.

Using projection and sculptural elements, I wanted to bring together the heartbeat, the rhythm of life, and the cyclical nature of menstruation as a metaphor for survival and resilience. The structure evokes the weight of ritual, the cross, the body as both object and witness.

The video exists as a fragment, a pulse, a gesture, a personal confrontation more than a narrative. It captures the essence of the installation as a sculptural self-portrait, where sound, projection, and space briefly collide.
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