Red room - Makeup

Red Room – Makeup reflects on the construction of identity within a system that turns bodies into products. Repetition, routine, and imposed aesthetics shape a face that is no longer entirely one’s own. The pressure to conform —to be desirable, acceptable, consumable— becomes a daily ritual.

Through the act of showing my face as it was every day for one year, the work exposes the tension between authenticity and performance. Makeup, image, and self-presentation function as a second skin — a mask shaped by patriarchal expectations, beauty standards, and social validation.

To reveal the bare face is not a neutral act, but a rupture. It resists the demand to constantly transform, improve, and please. It questions where identity truly resides: in what we construct, or in what remains when everything is removed.