Unbound: Breaking Free from the Stereotype Cage

Through the technique of shibari, an ancient Japanese rope bondage art, and using common foodstuffs, the artist explores the way in which we are forced to mold our bodies to fit a predefined mold, now amplified and distorted by the omnipresence of social media. Shibari, originally used as a torture practice, is transformed in this work into a metaphor for the psychological pressure we suffer from being constantly bombarded with images of bodies and faces modified with digital filters.

The obsession with appearance leads us to chain ourselves to time-consuming and energy-consuming care routines, in an endless race to achieve an ideal that only exists on the screens of our devices. The compositions, where the visibly imperfect, tied and suspended in the air food represent our bodies subjected to this pressure, confront us with the idea that beauty is not defined by perfect measurements or faces without imperfections and makes us question the need to redefine beauty from a more authentic and human perspective.

Gliceé printed