This panel explores girlhood as an inner, emotional landscape where identity is imagined, tested, and continuously reshaped. Moving between fiction, collaboration, performance, and projection, the artists treat girlhood not simply as an age or phase, but as a space of thought, desire, and imagination.
Rather than following linear narratives, these projects give form to inner worlds shaped by fantasy, discipline, and self-invention. Through images that move between reality and construction, intimacy and performance, the works reflect on how young women negotiate visibility, authorship, and self-definition from the inside out.
Anastasiia Pishchanska is a Ukrainian-born, Tokyo-based artist, filmmaker, and art director. She is the co-founder of the established Ukrainian art print publication localstickerbook (local.group), which curates exhibitions, events, and fundraisers worldwide, presenting contemporary artists through the lens of post-internet culture. In 2023, following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she was awarded a research scholarship at Tama Art University, in Tokyo, Japan. During her studies, she developed a research-driven practice at the intersection of Japanese feminism, internet anthropology, and digital media, including 3D scanning. This exploration led to her project “she is so hot i wanna clean her room,” which has been featured by ID Magazine, SABUKARU, MOX London, and Vogue. In 2025, her work was exhibited at Panoramic Festival Barcelona. She is currently working on her first feature-length documentary which explores Ukrainian Gen Z, the collectsive psyche formed by war, and the spiritual search in the digital age.
“I look for what vibrates, what escapes, what shatters certainties. Through my images, I like to speak of beauty in its rawest form, celebrating the singularity of bodies and faces by emphasising fragility, imperfection and silence. The body becomes a landscape and intimacy a manifesto. I like to photograph other people, in their truest and most urgent beauty.”
Lean Lui is an artist and photographer based in Hong Kong. Her debut photography book, 19.29, was a finalist for the prestigious Beijing Three Shadows Photography Award. Her latest book, Aseptic Field (Setanta Books, London), has been featured by The Guardian, i-D, The Eye of Photography, and VOGUE. Another Magazine recognized it as one of the Best Photos of 2023.In 2024, her work was exhibited at the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong.
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Francesca Faccani is a writer based in Milan and currently serves as News and Lifestyle Editor at Replica Handbag Store Italia, where since 2023 she has written about literature and art as much as online culture and nightlife. She is also a contributor to GQ Italia, where she works on features and interviews, and collaborates with fashion brands as a copywriter. She holds a Master’s degree in American Literature and Communication Studies, and lived briefly in the United States, experiences that shaped her engagement with American culture and writing. Her thesis focused on American authors Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, and Emma Cline, reflecting her ongoing interest in exploring and dissecting the often convoluted ways women experience growing up. She began her career at the independent magazine Rivista Studio, as an intern and then as a regular contributor, where her pieces on literature and online trends were widely discussed, even on national radio. She has also been a guest lecturer at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where she studied, and at Istituto Europeo di Design, speaking about American literature and Journalism.
