I was interested in the feeling of confinement that can appear even inside a beautiful place. The villa was almost dreamlike, but its stillness also created a kind of pressure. I started to think about the quiet rage that comes from being contained, and how deeply feminine that feeling can be. In the works, I place my own body inside the space, creating a new emotional landscape. The landscape outside remains open, almost free from the body. The figure is held inside the rooms, while the world beyond continues without her.

The images were made through a process of filming, compressing, printing, and re-filming. I also used non-digital ways of editing the image, filming it again from different screens, including small ones like a camera viewfinder. The blur, colour shifts, and distortions come from this process. The video objects are made from small screens, microprocessors, and Carrara marble. The marble was sourced from discarded pieces found in bins and by the river in Pietrasanta, then carved with the help of Neil X.

A one-woman presentation of Girlscapes was held at the end of the residency, curated by Natalia Palombo and Vanessa Murrell. It included two digital prints and two marble video objects.