Artwork description: A participatory project exploring phantom body memory after mastectomy. The glass breasts transform personal loss into shared memory and human solidarity.
Artwork description long: Phantom Syndrome: Body Memory explores body memory after the loss of a body part and the experience of phantom breast after mastectomy. It focuses on how something physically missing can remain in the body, memory, and identity. What began as a personal topic became a participatory project. The series of glass breasts was created in collaboration with women, transforming individual experiences of loss into shared memory, solidarity, and sisterhood. Each glass object represents an individual trace, while together they form a shared body. The photographic installation takes place in a damaged and changing space, a metaphor for the transformation of the body. Fragile glass is confronted with decay, connecting physical change with the natural process of transformation. Disintegration is understood not as an end, but as a space where something new can emerge. Water flowing over the glass refers to tears, cleansing, and the passing of time. It also represents accepting a changed body and rebuilding identity. The work reflects on social ideas about the female body, beauty, and wholeness. The project connects body, material, space, and collective experience. It transforms absence from a sign of loss into a space for acceptance, change, solidarity, and renewal.
Artwork description long: Phantom Syndrome: Body Memory explores body memory after the loss of a body part and the experience of phantom breast after mastectomy. It focuses on how something physically missing can remain in the body, memory, and identity. What began as a personal topic became a participatory project. The series of glass breasts was created in collaboration with women, transforming individual experiences of loss into shared memory, solidarity, and sisterhood. Each glass object represents an individual trace, while together they form a shared body. The photographic installation takes place in a damaged and changing space, a metaphor for the transformation of the body. Fragile glass is confronted with decay, connecting physical change with the natural process of transformation. Disintegration is understood not as an end, but as a space where something new can emerge. Water flowing over the glass refers to tears, cleansing, and the passing of time. It also represents accepting a changed body and rebuilding identity. The work reflects on social ideas about the female body, beauty, and wholeness. The project connects body, material, space, and collective experience. It transforms absence from a sign of loss into a space for acceptance, change, solidarity, and renewal.