"Stitched Gendertypes" explores the complex intersections between gender identity, cultural narratives, and societal expectations.
Created with hand-stitched interventions, layered textiles, and carefully selected fragments from glossy magazines, Lena Ash constructs tactile compositions that question how identities are shaped, categorised, and constrained by invisible cultural forces.
The deliberate use of traditional "domestic" materials — thread, fabric, and household patterns — becomes both an homage and a critique, highlighting how deeply ingrained stereotypes silently govern personal experience.
Influenced by the spirit of pop art, with vibrant compositions and ironic undertones, the series reclaims and subverts the visual language of mass media.
Through minimalist yet emotionally charged surfaces, each collage offers a quiet but powerful resistance, creating a space for nuance, ambiguity, and reimagined selfhood.