On being a Woman

(2024-ongoing)

Penetration was never meant to be kind. In pornography, scissors, razors, knives, and daggers are poised at the entrance to the vagina, shaved; or a sword penetrates the vagina, the woman smiles and smears the blood from her penetrated vagina all over he own body—eroticised dirt, eroticised sadism, eroticised death—not in a concentration camp but sold in a supermarket as mass entertainment, the evisceration happily simulated; or in a snuff film, real; or in a sex-murder, real, the vagina not infrequently mutilated with a knife.

—Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin

On Being a Woman is a visual exploration of sexuality and the complexities of female experience inspired by Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse. While sexuality can be empowering and liberating, it can also be a source of fear and discomfort. This performance seeks to capture the nuanced and sometimes contradictory emotions that accompany female sexuality, and ultimately give voice to the unspoken experiences of women.