(From Woman, Life, Freedom)
Mixed Media | 21 × 15 cm | 2022
This body of work emerges from the uprising of Woman, Life, Freedom—a moment where the human body became both a site of resistance and a target of violence.
The series combines life-sized portrait sculptures with mixed media panels, where strands of hair are suspended within resin alongside traces of red pigment and embedded black pellets. Each panel incorporates real human hair, collected from different individuals, grounding the work in lived, physical presence. These elements directly reference the use of shotgun ammunition against protesters—where metal fragments scatter unpredictably, wounding without precision, leaving lasting physical and psychological marks.
Hair, in this context, carries a layered significance. It functions as a material of identity, gender, and autonomy—particularly within a political landscape where the control of women’s bodies is enforced. Suspended and immobilized, it becomes both evidence and residue; something once alive, now held in a state of interruption.
The red stains evoke both blood and memory—fluid, spreading, and impossible to fully contain. The embedded pellets act as silent witnesses, fixed in place, yet charged with violence.
Rather than depicting explicit moments of conflict, the works operate through aftermath. They hold tension between presence and absence, between what remains visible and what has been erased.
Together, the sculptures and panels form a fragmented archive of a lived reality—where the body is marked, restrained, and yet continues to persist.