IS THAT ME? — ¿Esa soy yo?

IS THAT ME? — ¿Esa soy yo? What happens when distorted images of women become more visible than women themselves? *Is That Me?* questions how the female body is fragmented, manipulated and consumed, and what happens to the way we see and are seen.

Is That Me? explores the uncertain distance between the body we inhabit and the images through which it is represented.

In a visual culture saturated with images of women's bodies, constantly reproduced, fragmented, altered and consumed, where does the boundary between the real and the represented begin to blur? How might these images affect the way we look at others, or question the way we look at ourselves?

Through staged photography, repetition and digital pixelation, the project examines the instability of the image and the relationship between visibility, identity and control.

The pixelated photographs are deliberately larger than the sharp ones. This imbalance raises a question about the disproportionate presence of manipulated bodies in our collective visual imagination. As the image grows, the person becomes increasingly difficult to recognise. What do we actually see when we look at a body?

The catalogue-like arrangement introduces another layer of ambiguity. Repeated poses and systematic compositions evoke the ways in which women's bodies are displayed, classified and made available for consumption. Yet each gesture also suggests a different relationship with the act of being observed.

A green hose moves through the series, alternately surrounding, restricting and becoming an object of play. At times, its phallic associations invite a reconsideration of the visual codes through which masculinity, femininity and power are represented. The woman holds it, manipulates it and experiments with its meaning.

Between exposure and concealment, imposition and play, the photographs explore the possibility of resisting, questioning or appropriating the images through which bodies are defined.

Is That Me? does not seek to establish how women see themselves, but to question the relationship between representation and identity: what do we see, how do we see ourselves, and what possibilities of action emerge from that gaze?