Anyone that opens any social media will realize that some nude images are censored, even when there’s no need to.

“Nipples are Genderless” invites us to reflect on how media accustom the public perceiving female body.

With this project I want to stress out the contradictions and the indiscriminate use of the censorship of the Woman figure on the web.

It’s important to diversify the available material. Emoji, graffiti, blurred images... How many times they hide breast feeding? Why an elegant naked woman that narrates sincerely the beauty and the naturalness of the female body should be hide? Maybe there’s horror in the feminine genitalia? I saw on Instagram a mother that felt the need to obscure her daughter nipples. Is she already sexualizing her body? The same mother has a son also, and she never censored his body: why?

For WHO these contents are censored? For children? The same children that every day see their parents naked, and for them this nakedness is normal, is part of their everyday life, and that probably would be surprised discovering that somewhere is hidden?

This doesn’t mean that everyone could access everything: children should be protected by sexual content that they are not ready to understand and elaborate yet, but there are specific websites for this; plus, a conscious adult could keep well protected the access to these sites.

These are just some of the examples without veils on the web: they are all indistinctively censored and demonized.

Another topic that “Nipples are Genderless” investigate - and from which the project takes the name from - is the perception of a nipple: why is possible to post a breast on social media only if the nipple is covered? Is this inappropriate, filthy, indecent, and not the whole udder? Are we sure we can judge indecent the only part of the human body that is capable of feeding, if needed? And why the female nipple is censored and the male one is not?

The balance between irony and provocation brings to life a collage that leads us to reflection; I want to give body - a Female body - to a topic that has never have been more urgent.

This is because as a Woman I’m emotionally and physically involved, and as an artist it is my duty to involve emotionally and physically anyone else.