The title ‘Bodies that shatter’ is rooted in the early work of Judith Butler which described the performative power of the language, where subjects are described as male or female, and thus become socially perceptible as such through the performativity of the gender. The core of this collection appeals to the power of female self-portrayal in the sense of empowerment as opposed to the tradition of a male-dominated perspective. With reference to the blogger scene and the social mediascape at large, the power to dash, shock or shatter is considered here, as well as it's ironically offensive parody of the conservative depiction of female body. The fragmented body is sensual and unvarnished, adventurous and enigmatic, the body that averts or invites, the body that plays with expectation, rejects or satisfies those.

Such a body that exposes itself to the gazes and ruptures them for its own amusement thereafter. Fragmented, shattered, melancholic female body substantiates the gesture of appropriation and empowerment that reacts with irony, parody and displacements of expectations thus deploying them for oneself. It is a body which shatters patriarchal order with their own weapons. Since this practice targets the body straightforwardly, it is obvious that this body and manner of self-staging holds the power of agency, that goes beyond what it was initially intended for and deploys its opportunities. This particular stand of corporal resistance reproduces conventions and simultaneously subverts them. 

The collection draws inspiration from the flood of scantily-clad selfies shared by feminists on socials and the way underwear plays into how the feminine body is seen, staged, and reclaimed.

“This piece of work
reacts and interacts
with elements of the
contemporary
melancholic feminist
self-staging.”