PVF 2026 Conversations • Our bodies in Transformation: Fable, Ritual, and Change

This panel explores the feminine physique as a symbolic and lived house the place delusion, ritual, vulnerability, and transformation intersect. Working throughout trend images, documentary follow, staged imagery, and conceptual approaches, the artists use the physique not as a hard and fast signal, however as a web site the place that means is constantly constructed.

Through performative gestures, archetypes, and thoroughly constructed visible worlds, these initiatives draw on mythology, ritual, and emotional states in addition to lived expertise. Transformation emerges as an ongoing course of formed by tradition, creativeness, and self-representation, the place power and fragility coexist and the physique turns into a service of narrative and symbolic energy.

About Elizabeth Haust

Elizabeth Haust is a Russian visible artist, photographer, and director based mostly between Prague and Moscow. Working in staged images and trend movie, she blends cinematic composition, symbolism, and psychological storytelling, utilizing haunted areas and theatrical gentle to discover identification, reminiscence, and the strain between vulnerability and management. Her work has been proven internationally in solo and group exhibitions, movie festivals, and publications, together with the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, GUP Magazine, and Dark Beauty Magazine. Haust creates poetic, typically unsettling worlds that invite viewers to decode metaphor and confront intimate emotional states.

About Isabel MacCarthy

Isabel MacCarthy grew up by the ocean in Norfolk, UK. She lives and works in London. She accomplished her BA at Central Saint Martins in 2021. Her analogue photographic follow entails portraiture, documentary and staged images, and sometimes engages themes of Love & loss and the numerous strands of connection between people and nature.

About Shannon Cavarocchi

Shannon Cavarocchi (b. 1997) is a photographer from Oahu, Hawaii now based mostly in Australia. Shannon’s private work touches on notions of human connection to the panorama, animals, and reminiscence the place, typically drawing on private experiences, she seeks to discover the human issues of feelings, trauma, and therapeutic.

About Teresa Ciocia

Teresa Ciocia is born and raised in Puglia in 1993, at present based mostly in Paris. Since she was a toddler, she developed an curiosity in trend by watching Movies and trend exhibits on TV . Teresa loves to emphasise the shapes of feminine our bodies, enjoying with gentle to create an enigmatic and sensual ambiance. Photography is a method of mixing artwork and trend with emotional actuality.

About Turkina Faso

Turkina Faso is a London-based visible artist working in images, textual content, and movie. She holds levels from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, the Institute of Journalism and Literature, and an MA in Fashion Photography from London College of Fashion. Her venture MEandTHEM: Back Home with Alice was revealed and reviewed internationally. Featured in Numero Russia’s “Top 17 of 2017,” she has labored with YSL Beauty, Vogue, Dazed, and extra. Turkina lectures at LCF and is creating her first characteristic movie.

About Viridiana

Viridiana is a photographer and visible storyteller from Mexico City, her work is thought for its emotional depth and refined aesthetics, crafting intimate and trustworthy visible narratives that join deeply along with her topics and audiences. Through images and audiovisual media, she explores themes of identification, self-perception, and human connection.

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About Marco Pecorari

Marco Pecorari is Associate Professor in Fashion Studies and Associate Dean for Liberal Arts and Research at The New School Parsons Paris the place he directs the MA in Fashion Studies. His analysis focuses on the politics of archives and museums, exploring the intersections of essential principle, trend media, efficiency and heritage. He is the editor of the e book Fashion in Theory: Historicization, Subjectivity and Practice (Manchester University Press, 2025), creator of Fashion Remains: Rethinking Fashion Ephemera within the Archive (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of the amount Fashion, Performance and Performativity: The Complex Spaces of Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2021). He just lately curated the exhibition Ephemeral Matters, Into the Fashion Archive held on the National Museum of Oslo (October 204- March 2025). He is the co-founder of the pageant and publication Printing Fashion and sits on the editorial boards of Fashion Theory, ZoneModa Journal, and Bloomsbury Fashion Central. He can be a member of the Scientific Board of the European Fashion Heritage Association (EFHA).