The period can be “photogenic”. Jen Lewis, demonstrates this by making a series of photographs with the emblematic name: “beauty in blood “ (beauty in the blood, editor’s note). The one who proudly takes on the costume of “menstrual designer”, claims her desire to “demonize” or even sublimate menstruation, “which society considers unpleasant”, she explains to the Spanish woman S Moda del Pais.
“The blood of menstruation completely absent from the visual landscape”
Through her photographic lens, she casts a harsh but aesthetic light on the ripples of the blood. It is also the movement of her own rules that she captured in the eye of her camera using her menstrual cup. The process may shock sensitive souls, but the end result shows anything but something off-putting: colorful conceptual fluids, evanescent swirls, like paint splatters.
Abstract compositions that point to a very real problem: “One day, after emptying my menstrual cup, I observed the blood that remained on my fingers and I began to wonder why society considers menstruation to be something Blood, gore references and gratuitous violence are omnipresent in pop culture (news, sports, movies, video games, music …) but the blood of rules is completely absent from the visual landscape “, she explains to S Moda.
An activist project intended to lift the taboo of rules
His abstract creations therefore serve a less esoteric than a social objective: “to change social perception” and “to raise awareness of the human rights associated with menstruation”. Jen Lewis joins the activism against discrimination linked to the rules at a time when many women still have to fight against isolation and lack of access to menstrual care.
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