Chloe Nicosia
To live like a woman is “Living the ever present possibility that one will be gazed upon as a mere body, as form and flesh that presents itself as the potential object of another subject’s intentions and manipulations” (Iris Marion Young). The bodies of individuals who identify as women become a social and societal issue. Though the female body is mistreated, subjected to aesthetic, sexual or reproductive standards and is freely exploited or regulated, it is also the source of its emancipation.
The breasts are here to create a “safe space" and to re-appropriate the physical space by the “feminine,” whatever that may be. This landscape is diverse and colorful. It is marked with layers of women through the ages, like a topography of a struggling, moving and ever-changing terrain.