STORIES OF DECAY
Stories of Decay is an ongoing photographic project. The series began in 2025 and marks a new direction in my practice, introducing digital photography into my artistic work.
This series uses rotting fruits and vegetables to tell stories of women from history, literature, culture and myth.
Each work shows how women have been admired, desired, controlled, or thrown away — valued for their beauty or strength, but often punished simply for who they are or for the choices they made. The slow decay of the materials reflects how society consumes and abandons women’s bodies, turning them into a resource, an artifact, or an object of judgment.
Each work shows how women have been admired, desired, controlled, or thrown away — valued for their beauty or strength, but often punished simply for who they are or for the choices they made. The slow decay of the materials reflects how society consumes and abandons women’s bodies, turning them into a resource, an artifact, or an object of judgment.
Paleolithic Venus — once a sacred figure, but now perceived only as a resource. Venus as an artifact no one understands anymore.
Image: a sculpture made of fruits, half-destroyed, covered with mold and dirt, as if it had been unearthed but never restored.
Image: a sculpture made of fruits, half-destroyed, covered with mold and dirt, as if it had been unearthed but never restored.
The Little Mermaid — a sacrifice made for someone else’s love, and the impossibility of freedom. She gave up her voice and body for a man, yet was abandoned.
Image: a shoe trapped in a net, symbolizing a woman entangled in expectations and imposed roles.
Image: a shoe trapped in a net, symbolizing a woman entangled in expectations and imposed roles.
Rapunzel — power turned into captivity. Her hair was both her gift and her chains.
Image: a comb with stuck, tangled “hair,” turned into a symbol of submission, when a woman lives not for herself but for the walls and hands of others.
Image: a comb with stuck, tangled “hair,” turned into a symbol of submission, when a woman lives not for herself but for the walls and hands of others.
Hannah Arendt — a woman defined by exile. Forced to flee, she lived without a permanent home, carrying her past, language, and history within herself. Survival did not bring freedom, only the necessity of constant movement while bearing everything that could not be left behind.
Image: a shell wrapped in netting, filled with decaying organic matter, symbolizing a body that must keep moving while dragging its past like a home it cannot abandon.
Image: a shell wrapped in netting, filled with decaying organic matter, symbolizing a body that must keep moving while dragging its past like a home it cannot abandon.
Medusa — a woman who endured violence and was punished not for another’s sin but for her very existence. Her gaze turned men to stone because it carried too much truth.
Image: a sculpture made of aging fruits, where trauma becomes an eternal “gaze” that no one can look away from.
Image: a sculpture made of aging fruits, where trauma becomes an eternal “gaze” that no one can look away from.
Joan of Arc — female strength destroyed by the system. She led an uprising and an army, but was betrayed and burned, later canonized. In life, she was used and rejected.
Image: a combination of organics and metal, where the fragility of the body confronts the cruelty of the structure.
Image: a combination of organics and metal, where the fragility of the body confronts the cruelty of the structure.
Madame Bovary — dissonance and the constant feeling of inadequacy. She looked at herself through the eyes of society and novels, never her own.
Image: an apple looking into a mirror, where instead of youth it sees decay. The reflection is always foreign, always full of judgment.
Image: an apple looking into a mirror, where instead of youth it sees decay. The reflection is always foreign, always full of judgment.
