Embracing discomfort prompted me to reflect on my body and explore how my own experiences could challenge conventional beauty standards.
Hi, I’m Virginia and I hate my nose.
I think it’s ugly, disproportionate,
I hate the hump on it. I hate my profile.
My work has literally gone through a journey of change that brought me back to screen printing.
Returning to the origins of this tool, I was inspired by the method Marinetti, used in his Manifesto, to create a repetition of frames of my nose. The hammering, the continuous repetition of the image created discomfort in me but it was almost hypnotic and alienating. At the end I even started to like it.