MetaSelf can be interpreted as a theory of the expression of the personal self through Global Cultural Archetypes. It suggests that contemporary identity is formed through the interaction between the internal sense of self and external cultural influences.
Global Archetypes and Personal Identity
In the MetaSelf concept, Archetypes such as the Gorgon, the Amazon, the Fox and Aphrodite represent different aspects of feminine power and aesthetics.
Through them, MetaSelf expresses the idea that personal identity is composed of multiple layers, each of which reflects a certain cultural or mythological symbolism.
MetaSelf emphasises that the inner self does not exist in isolation, but is the result of accumulations of cultural, social and personal experiences. This corresponds to the concept of “self-concept” in psychology, which views the self as a dynamic and multi-layered structure, influenced by external and internal factors.
What is Esseance?
Essence is what remains when everything external falls apart.
That which you cannot steal, remake or imitate.
It is not a fixed point, but a pulsating core.
Essence is not an image, nor an idea, nor a function, it is an experienced feeling, an inner memory, an invisible record of all that you have been and can be.
In the MetaSelf aesthetic, essence is that mythological thread that has survived through the millennia the Archetypes.
They are an expression of the essences through which Humanity has told itself.The Gorgon, the Amazon, the Fox, Aphrodite are not just Myths, they are projections of inner energies, of emotions, fears and powers that a person experiences in every Age.
In a world where everything is an image, essence is the ultimate truth.
And it is not stable. It is alive. It is created every day through new and new “faces” and stories.
The clothes are disassembled, reassembled, rearranged.
They are a metaphor for the disintegration of identities and the playful reassembly of a new whole. They leave no trace because the essence can never be fully captured.
MetaSelf is the result of two years internal and external journey.
Two years in which I confronted the images that culture has bequeathed to me: the Gorgon, the Amazon, the Fox and Aphrodite and dressed them in new forms, in order to try to understand who I am in a world that offers me in infinite versions.
MetaSelf is a theory, but also a personal odyssey.
It is an attempt to create a modern person who exists in the intertwined layers of the digital, the material, the mythological and the internal.
In this world of copies, in which clothes are prints, images – old legends in a new guise,
and identities – changing avatars,
I set out to search for the essence.
That which does not fall apart.
That which does not multiply, that which remains.
My essence. Your essence. Our common essence.
MetaSelf is a concept of global identity,
not one that depersonalises, but one that goes through the personal to reach the universal.
It is a theory of being that combines myth and modernity, matter and pixels, archetype and personal narrative.
In this collection, clothes are assembled and disassembled, because that is how we exist,
assembled from experiences,
Traumas, myths and desires.
And we fall apart again to start over.
Prints on natural materials are a key technique in the collection, where hand-painted and digitally transformed images are transferred onto fabrics such as wool and cotton.
The prints carry the metaphors of internal conflict, shame and subsequent healing. Dynamic form and construction — the models are designed to exist between disclosure and concealment, between external protection and internal recognition.
A combination of traditional and contemporary techniques that visually tell about the encounter with oneself,
about how shame can be transformed into strength.
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