On taking up space, breaking out, and becoming your own woman.
What happens when women stop shrinking themselves to fit the world around them?
In New Moons, Italian visual artist Ada Marino explores women’s bodies, memories and the spaces they inhabit. Her surreal black-and-white photographs play with ideas of confinement, vulnerability, resistance and transformation.
A paper plane becomes a symbol of escape. A cardboard box turns into a hiding place. A house slowly disappears beneath the water. Throughout the series, bodies are trapped, exposed, hidden and ultimately reclaimed.
Created as a response to her previous project Paterfamilias, New Moons looks at what comes after oppression: healing, awareness, solidarity and the courage to take back your own space.
Marino’s work is strange, raw and sometimes unsettling. And we love a woman making art that refuses to behave itself.
Ada Marino, New Moons. 🖤
