The work consists of a 12-part animation, the individual frames of which are painted with
menstrual blood on paper and then digitally processed.
The starting point of the work lies in a personal experience: the first
conscious contact with one's own menstrual blood through the use of a
menstrual cup. A moment that represented a break with feelings of shame and disgust
and instead triggered a fascination. When emptying the
menstrual cup into the toilet, there was a confrontation with the blood, and an
unexpected beauty was revealed: the luminous red of the blood in
contrast to the white of the porcelain.
Since then, the blood has been collected and used as artistic material. It
is not hidden, but deliberately made visible. The focus is always on this
first personal experience with blood and the unexpected
aesthetics, which contrast with the socially perceived disgust.
Pouring out the blood creates structures, densities and
randomness: areas where the blood collects, and those that it
leaves out. The moth shown in the animation moves in an
endless loop always towards a point, without ever reaching it.
Its wings beat in a constant sequence, a cycle without
resolution. This movement reflects the cyclical experience of the female body:
a process that repeats itself, consistently and routinely, but nevertheless
remains unpredictable. The work invites the viewer to recognize a
unique form of beauty in the repetition and to re-examine what is supposedly shameful.
