Fragments of a body

A visual investigation of endometriosis, female pain, and bodily invisibility. Through self-portraiture and archival materials, the project explores the tension between personal experience and institutional representations of the female body.

This project explores the lived experience of endometriosis as a starting point for a broader reflection on the invisibility of female pain and the representation of the body within medical and cultural systems. Considered a chronic, debilitating, and often difficult to diagnose condition, endometriosis is approached not only as a clinical disease, but as an experience marked by uncertainty, fragmentation, and lack of recognition.

The research originates and develops through a practice based methodology combining self-portraiture, photographic production, and the use of archival materials drawn from medical and institutional contexts, including historical clinical photographs, anatomical illustrations, and fragmented documents. These materials are reworked through practices of montage, layering, and decontextualization, generating a dialogue between subjective experience and institutional representations of the female body.

Produced entirely in black and white, the project constructs a visual language grounded in contrast, texture, blur, and fragmentation. The images oscillate between presence and absence, legibility and obscurity, reflecting the difficulty of representing a bodily experience that is often invisible, minimized, or delegitimized.

Through a fragmented narrative structure, the work explores the body as both an intimate and political space, questioning the ways in which certain bodies have historically been observed, classified, and made visible according to predominantly institutional logics.