My artistic practice is rooted in interdisciplinary research exploring the relationship between the body, identity, cultural narratives, and systems of visibility and concealment. Through the lenses of fashion studies, feminist theory, gender studies, and contemporary art, I investigate how bodies are shaped by social expectations and how creative practices can challenge inherited meanings and dominant narratives.
My research focuses on menstruation as both a biological experience and a cultural construct. I examine how menstrual stigma is produced through silence, representation, language, fashion, and everyday practices of concealment. By questioning these social frameworks, my work explores how experiences often considered private, invisible, or uncomfortable can become spaces of dialogue, agency, and collective reflection.
The theoretical foundation of my research is informed by feminist and critical thinkers including Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Audre Lorde, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Mary Douglas, and Emily Martin. Their perspectives guide my exploration of embodiment, gender construction, social norms, and the relationship between individual experiences and broader cultural structures.
Alongside theoretical investigation, I engage with artistic practices that confront bodily taboos and expand representations of identity, including the works of Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann, and Ana Mendieta. Through photography, fashion, material experimentation, and visual storytelling, my practice seeks to create alternative ways of seeing the body and to question the boundaries between the personal and the collective.

Academic Research

Practice the Unseen: Menstrual Art as a Tool for Shifting Stigma

Master’s Thesis — Fashion Studies, Sapienza University of Rome

This thesis investigates menstruation as a cultural, social, and visual subject, exploring how menstrual art can challenge stigma and transform experiences of concealment into forms of visibility, expression, and dialogue. Through feminist theory, critical studies, and analysis of artistic practices, the research examines the body as a site of identity, resistance, and cultural negotiation.