Damn Fine

My Silencio series is my nostalgic homage to cinema, where I blend pop culture references with the personalities of the women I portray. I’m drawn to the tension between fantasy and reality, using a cinematic lens to explore themes of inner strength, solitude, and vulnerability through a female gaze.

Starting from characters in films I love, I imagine their lives beyond the final frame, rewriting their stories and offering them a freedom they were rarely given on screen. Too often, cinema presents women through a male lens, limiting them to passive roles or objects of desire.

My work questions how these portrayals shape society’s view of women. From Hitchcock’s Vertigo to countless other films, control over the female image has long been in male hands. This imbalance continues today. Through Silencio, I seek to shift the focus: from woman as object, to woman as author.

As Laura Mulvey, in Visual pleasure and narrative cinema – 1975, wrote, “Woman stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other… bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.” It is time to change this.