Venetian Red

 Venetian Red is a durational art project in which, each time my period arrives, I sit on a sheet of watercolor paper, let the blood flow, and meditate.

 The process will continue for as long as my menstruation lasts. The work originates from two intertwined impulses. First, a lifelong fascination with the pigment Venetian red — a watercolor whose smell recalls blood. Second, the material reality of menstruation itself, which since childhood has carried for me both pain and awe. 

My first period nearly killed me: a fever of 42°C, two days of anabiosis, misdiagnosed as appendicitis. That near-death encounter imprinted blood as both ordeal and revelation. Since then I have carried the image of covering a white marble floor with menstrual blood, free bleeding as a radical gesture of beauty and truth. This is not my first work with the body as medium, but it is the first to approach menstruation so directly, systematically, and without metaphor. Each sheet becomes both relic and score, an index of time, repetition, and meditation on cycles of fertility, exhaustion, and renewal. 

The project takes shape as video art, documenting the act while layering it with the musical composition "Circle: This is how I summon fire". This performance consists of vocal improvisation carried out while drawing a continuous circle without pause, a ritual in which voice and gesture fuse into trance. The sonic element amplifies the work’s meditative force, binding menstruation, drawing, and song into a single act of endurance and invocation.

 Placed in dialogue with other works in my practice, including the Butt series — Venetian Red continues the investigation of corporeal honesty, ritual exposure, and the refusal of shame. It confronts time, endurance, and the female body as a site where violence and grace are inseparable.