I’m noise, didn’t get to be a person; 2026

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Selected bibliography

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Lorella Zanardo, Il corpo delle donne
Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
Astrida Neimanis, Hydrofeminism

The project unfolds as an investigation into female identity within contemporary Western culture and the mechanisms through which it is constructed, transmitted, and internalised. Starting from a critical and visual reflection, the work examines the fragmentation of the self within cultural models that have historically defined femininity through rigid oppositions and recurring archetypes.
The body becomes a site of reading and projection: a space traversed by gazes, narratives, and systems of value that shape its perception and condition its experience. Within this overlap between image and social structure, identity emerges as an unstable construction, continuously negotiated.
The project is structured in three chapters - Milk, Blood, Tears - which do not simply describe a process of growth, but a perceptual transformation: from origin to adolescence to adulthood, as stages of internalisation and increasing awareness of the dispositifs that define femininity.

Rather than proposing a conclusive reading, the work opens a suspended space in which identity is not fixed but observed in its becoming, between recognition, resistance, and the possible disarticulation of the codes that produce it.

Vittoria Pagliaro

A series of twelve selected images

I’m noise, didn’t get to be a person

Song to the sirens