The Feminine Fragility project responds to urgent social issues surrounding gender-based violence and the systemic erasure of women’s stories. Through poetic, abstract, and performative media, the project seeks to raise public awareness, evoke emotional resonance, and contribute meaningfully to conversations about women’s experiences in contemporary society.
The video components of Feminine Fragility are conceived as immersive, nonlinear visual narratives. They integrate experimental soundscapes, flickering images, archival text, and meditative pacing to create a sensory experience that invites reflection on the scale and emotional weight of gendered violence. Drawing from structuralist film influences and feminist performance art, these works seek not to explain but to make felt—transforming statistical data into a poetic visual language.
Materiality plays a central role in this investigation—not as a neutral property, but as a deeply political and poetic language. Fabric, printmaking, sound, and installation become vessels for memory and resistance. Inspired by artists such as Doris Salcedo and Giuseppe Penone, I approach material as metaphor, as archive, and as protest. These textures and forms serve as tactile memorials, bearing witness to loss while carving out space for empathy, remembrance, and solidarity.
Equally, Feminine Fragility interrogates the female body not as an object of desire, but as a messenger of knowledge, emotion, and lived experience. Through fragmented imagery, subtle gesture, blurred form, and layered sound, the body emerges as a site of truth—one that exists beyond the gaze, beyond social norms, and beyond conventional representation. The project reclaims feminine identity as complex, intuitive, and resilient, and aims to honour women's lives not through their absence alone, but through the enduring power of their presence.
For that project I have processed archival materials: I collected and analysed the 2024 Counting Dead Women Australia register. This document, printed and included in my video, became both source material and subject, representing the systematic recording of lives lost, reduced to names and dates. This process raised questions for me about how systems remember or erase women, and what role art can play in restoring dignity.