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The VULVA PROJECT 

&

WOMB ARCHITECTURE

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The Vulva Project started as a visual exploration of the experience of the anatomy of the female body with a case study of my own body. Using different visual tools, like drawing improvisation, prints on carved rubber, collages on 17th-century illustrations on the anatomy of pregnancy and birth, the mixed-media technique of photo-projection on skin, immersive installations, and more, I am curious about the body as a SPACE we can experience both from the inside and from the outside.

This journey and exploration have been the focus of my personal trials, which have been to build a holistic perception and image of my self and body and use philosophical and experiential means to tackle the human experience of gestation and birth of the self we construct/experience as adults, a phase of self-incubation. 

While we try to build an image for ourselves in the present, this image is highly informed by our experiences in the past, starting already from the time in the belly of our mother, as well as informed by the projections of who we want to become in the future. Both past and future affect our choices in the present, and on the other hand, recent interactions can reveal who we have been and what we have experienced through emotional signals in our body-spaces. 

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The Womb: a space for collective care, INNERSCAPE festival, 2021
"The Womb: the first space we ever lived in"
Proposal for a Participatory Immersive Installation 
Concept / Prompt design: Eleni Danesi
Images: DreamStudio-stability.ai

Linz, Austria, 2023

THE WOMB

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The WOMB,sef-birth, is a journey backward through life, retracing imginaries of my origins and the very first space I inhabited—the womb. This deeply personal investigation materializes through a series of collages inspired by 17th-century anatomical illustrations of the womb, contemplations on the form of the female body, and fetal postures which I reenacted and reinterpreted.

This project also symbolizes the adult phase of rediscovering and reclaiming my identity, a period marked by deliberate unlearning of imposed societal patterns disconnected from my authentic inner drive. This process, often intimate and challenging, unfolds across emotional landscapes profoundly experienced within and through my body. It demands an attentive self-care akin to nurturing a growing child, wherein each step must be relearned and earned anew. Ultimately, it represents an intimate, sometimes painful, yet transformative journey of self-birthing.

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"Womb: self-incubation"
Digital collage 1, Berlin 2022
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"Womb: self-incubation"
Digital collage 2, Berlin 2022
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Photo projection: photo-collage on SKIN
"Self-Incubation"
Berlin-Leonidio, 2022-2023

Concept-Collage: Eleni Danesi
Photo: Denise Ackerl
CONTACT

The work is available for exhibitions with photography of the Incubation Illustrations and Video Projection.

For inquiries, please contact me here:  connect@elenidanesi.com

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