⤷ My practice resides somewhere between visual and critical design, fashion and gender studies, sociology and feminist research methods. I developed a distinctive feminist approach to research and pedagogy to creatively engages in the designing of research methods and reflect on how research performs normative representations of social realities. I now study gender fluid practices of fashion photography as a PhD candidate in visual sociology at Goldsmiths and develop public engagement strategies for different research networks relating to fashion, feminist design research and visual sociology.
My book
⟶Diagramming Fluidity studies the diverse ways of envisioning the fluidity of gender in fashion photography whilst the clothing industry is established on the binary menswear / womenswear. The visual outcome of the research is part of the exhibition
Designs for Different Futures currently on show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, US.
☞ The book is published by
Onomatopee.
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Conversexion
My intervention in printed fashion and lifestyle magazines only leaves the garments, postures, patterns and objects surroundings bodies visible. The remaining gaps trouble the assumptions of gender normativity as it reveals its ambiguous fragility. By erasing each bare body part visible, I wanted to point at the complex layers operating in the expression of identity beyond any gender assignation to bodies. ⤿2013
