2024, Video. 3m 53s

MOUTHBOOB is a video work exploring bodily autonomy, surveillance, and the social and cultural relationship with women’s bodies through the language of body horror. By transforming one of the most sexualised parts of the body — the breasts — and giving them mouths, voices, and the ability to communicate, the work imagines the body reclaiming agency and resisting the external gaze placed upon it.

The piece follows a character experiencing the unsettling transformation of these new bodily features, initially attempting to hide and control them in response to the expectations of spectatorship and self- surveillance. Over time, the character moves from fear and rejection toward acceptance and a new relationship with her changing body.

Created through a combination of handmade prosthetics, both papier-mâché and latex masks, and hand-drawn animation, the work uses collage and mixed media to create a visually fragmented and unsettling experience. Rather than following a traditional narrative structure, the piece focuses on sensation, discomfort, and embodiment, aiming to create a physical response in the viewer and explore how horror can reveal deeper relationships between the body, identity, and control.

Through absurdity and body horror, MOUTHBOOB challenges ideas of ownership over the body and questions who has the right to look, interpret, and define it.