“I found in a flea market a stock of postcards of female nudes from the early 20th century. For a long time I observed the posed women, their genuineness and spontaneity in front of the camera noticing a completely different approach from the nude we are used to seeing today, especially on social media. So I decided to intervene and alter the images, creating ‘analogue memes’ to talk about contemporary feminisms.

The collection is called Send Nudes, a topic expression of the sexual practice of sexting. I played on the verb ‘to send’ which in those days was still done in an adorably manual way, via physical mail.”

“The intention of Send Nudes is to (re)assign the woman’s body a new centrality, destroying the image of the woman-object as an invention of the male gaze. Thanks to the technique of embroidery on paper, an intervention that is both violent - piercing, tearing - and delicate - welding, patching, sewing - Chiara has the power to create new scenarios. Details, images and inscriptions thus change their meaning and purpose: from objects for the gratification of male desire, to feminist subjects, which play on the theme of femininity and sensuality oriented towards body positivity, also with irony and sarcasm”