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Research-based project realised with the Studio Ecologies of Technology with the guidance of Connor Cook, Nicholas Korody and Ginevra Petrozzi.
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The Candid Zone is a research-based project that confronts upskirting —a violation where non-consensual images of women or female-presenting bodies are captured and shared online. Uncovering uprkiting practices makes us question the displacement of male gaze through digital eyes that record and remember, archive in secret uphold power, reinforcing the subcultural foundations of Red Pill misogyny. 

Developed as a speculative scenario, The Candid Zone proposes a different narrative of this abuse by accelerating the intentionality of exposure. A fictional cam girl flips the power dynamic, turning vulnerability into strength, reclaiming agency over her body and transforming what is taken without consent into a profitable business opportunity.
 
The research starts from questioning the cultural obsession on intimate parts embedded in the heteronormative gaze, treated as a universal metric of categorisation. This fixation often materialises as misogynistic acts like upskirting, pushing sexual harassment into the digital sphere and spawning platforms built on secrecy, shame, and control.

Matetrialised as a performative installation, the project wants to critique hyper-sexualization, misogyny, and the urgent need for societal and legal reform.

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