This panel examines how femininity is constructed, performed, and consumed through beauty, fashion, and media. Working across fashion photography, archival material, performance, and conceptual image-making, the artists explore how women are turned into spectacle, symbol, and ideal, and how these images circulate within popular culture.
Rather than rejecting visibility, the works presented inhabit it with awareness and intention. Through gesture, styling, repetition, and performance, these projects expose and rework the visual codes that shape desire, aspiration, and authority, asking how beauty is made, who it serves, and how it can be reclaimed from within.
Born in Jakarta in 1995 to Italian and Chinese Indonesian parents. Alessia Gunawan is a multimedia artist primarily working with photography and film. In her projects, Gunawan focuses on unveiling the hyper saturated images that conceal the various aspects of a globalized and seemingly connected contemporary culture.
Carla Rossi (born 1999, Pescara, Italy) is a Paris-based photographer exploring how identity is constructed and performed in contemporary image culture. Using photography as a stage, she observes how gestures, poses, and appearances are created, repeated, and choreographed, often collaborating with performers or aspiring young people. Drawing from fashion and the image industry, Rossi reflects on belonging, self-value, intimacy, beauty, and self-awareness within shared visual languages of youth and identity.
Elizabeth Bick is an artist and scholar exploring the intersection of photography and dance. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Sotheby’s New York, Fraenkel Gallery, and the Norton Museum of Art, and is held in collections such as MoMA Library and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundations, and the Rudin Prize. Bick’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and TIME, and she has completed residencies including the American Academy in Rome. She is Professor and Head of Photography at the College of Charleston and holds an MFA from Yale.
Hannah Hall is a London based Photographer and Artist. Originally from the North East of England. Hall s work explores womanhood, identity and morality. Her visual language draws from her own background and lived experiences. Prioritising casting as an important tool for collaboration and story telling.
Paoli De Luca (1999) is a visual artist and director from Naples. After working on various independent projects, both in front of and behind the camera (for Vogue Italia, MACRO, and Vivienne Westwood), they moved to Rome. Their short film Star (2024) won awards at Italian festivals. Marina (2025) is their latest work.
Priscillia Saada is a French photographer based in Paris. She studied at ECAL and works primarily in fashion photography, collaborating with magazines, editorial publications, and brands. She recently published her first photography book, MOONS, an intimate project that explores the theme of motherhood through a contemporary lens. She is currently working on a second book, scheduled for release in May 2026.
Vera van Dam (1989) is an Amsterdam based artist. She is focused on researching femininity in society and is drawn to filmic framing involving enigmatic elements. After her studies at the University of Amsterdam she fully committed to photography as a medium as a visual artist. After studying at the Photo Academy she explored photography as an artist in residence in Berlin. Back in Amsterdam Vera started as an assistant of Paul Kooiker. Last year she published her first publication from the project, Dahlia, together with Setanta Books. She is currently focussing on her own practice and working on various autonomous projects. In the upcoming year Vera plans to release a new publication.
Moderated by
Michaela Perau, Visual Director at Vogue France, formerly at Mastermind Magazine under the creative direction of Marie-Amelie Sauve.
Michaela is a Paris based Image Director + Art Buyer and works with artists and brands across editorial and commercial landscapes in fashion, fine art, film, and publishing.
