With this project, I have worked on the image of beauty and its authenticity, how we try to fit to an ideal distorted by the media and how it can affect our identities and the way we represent ourselves.

’Atelophobia’ involves several portraits of women whose bodies have been altered through digital retouch with the idea to acquire the idealised female figure as depicted by our patriarchal society.

I played into and against the objectification of the female body, adopting an exaggerated over-Identification with the male gaze. As beauty norms are constantly changing, I exaggerated the feminine features making women sexually appealing but also unnatural looking with their lips, cheekbones, breast and bottom reworked and disproportionate. The ideal body image becomes completely abstract and ironic.