The Grotesque Feminine explores how the female body becomes monstrous when it resists idealised versions of beauty. Through distorted macro photography, layered imagery and skin-like material experiments, the project develops abstract forms that merge femininity with abjection.

These visuals are transformed into repeating patterns and printed onto textiles, turning bodily excess and discomfort into wearable surfaces. On the body, the prints blur boundaries between attraction and repulsion, transforming the grotesque into uncanny, wearable art. The collection embraces the visceral and unsettling while reclaiming beauty through distortion, questioning whether the grotesque can be ornamental and whether monstrosity might itself hold power.

Drawing on parasitic forms that cling, feed and transform their host, the prints reimagine growth as invasive and entangled, spreading across the body like infections or blooms. The parasitic becomes a metaphor for femininity framed as both alluring and contaminating. When worn, these textiles turn the body into both host and participant, transforming discomfort into a strange, inescapable beauty.