‚Avert your eyes‘
‚Avert Your Eyes‘ is a series of self portraits contemplating the perception of shame, physical and emotional self-acceptance and female self-consciousness.
As Simone de Beauvoir has observed, ‚The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so.‘
Looking at notions of nakedness, monthly cycles and bodily changes after giving birth, I explore the concept of identity and the (fe)male gaze.