Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Conceptual photography »
Honorable Mention
Title: Full of R4p3s / Full of Rapes
The title unfolds in two forms: Full of R4p3s, coded for digital circulation in toxic online spaces and algorithmic censorship resistance; Full of Rapes, explicit for exhibition spaces. A political stance exposing how violence is hidden and normalized, maintaining tension with Full of Grace and the sacred feminine.
The female body remains historical spoils. In wars, conquered territory to humiliate communities; today, commodity in digital pornographic flows among teenagers. Brutal continuum links war rapes to secret chats, devastated bodies to intimate images. Beyond women: children, elderly, vulnerable prey to patriarchal logic wielding sexuality as domination.
The 9:16 format mirrors TikTok and Stories, referencing vertical devices consuming violence and pornography. The trauma medium becomes critical mirror.
Female nudes stripped of aesthetics: stretch marks, scars emerge as living traces. Manual intervention with scratches, burns, red markings. Body becomes wound canvas, political witness no longer desire object. "De-subjectivation" strategy: the eroticized rendered disturbing, non-consumable.
Archival soldier-perpetrator photographs reinforce dialogue between masculine-power and feminine-violated territory. Male figures symbolize repeated domination, female bodies testimonial resistance.
