Stay Soft // Publication Launch

STAY SOFT by Hannelore Leisek and Asli Umut, is an intimate contemplation on the female gaze and experience.

The publication contains artworks by eight female artists, sharing their own personal understanding of what it means to ‘Stay Soft’.

The visual expressions are accompanied by six stream of consciousness style narratives developed from multiple anonymous conversations that were recorded between 2020 and 2021. The stories in STAY SOFT engage with personal ideas of beauty, body image, gender bias, prejudice, patriarchy and how we fundamentally occupy our own space, physiologically.

The 58 page self-designed and self-published book printed by exwhyzed, has been released as an edition of 250. 

The project was born out of an interest to investigate what it means to embody the female space.

Artists involved:
Asli Umut
Beatriz Maues
Erin Green
Feben Vemmenby
Hannelore Leisek
Lucy Webster
Meltem Sahin
Nilufer Kocabas