In the privacy of their own spaces, the women – or those who identify as such – portrayed here reveal themselves — as muses of their own selves — free from stereotypes, sexual objectification, and the myth or deification of beauty standards imposed upon them.
Free from a system that colonises and oppresses us.
Free, if only for a moment, from fear.
Free to share, to desire, to tell our stories, to reclaim our space and to assert ourselves.
Manifestə is the political life that unfolds within our bodies, whether we like it or not; it is a desire for reclaiming our agency.
It is a narrative written collectively, a cry of resistance that we intend to carry forward for the rest of our lives.