Speculative Project // Final Thesis // Venice Academy of Fine Arts

// Lulu est comme elle est; elle prend sa liberté et des espaces de liberté, elle ne fait que ce qu’elle a envie de faire. Voilà en quoi elle apparait courageuse et sublime // Christine Schäfer

// Lulu’s story is ambiguous and cruel - it forces the audience to renounce their blind, merciless respectability, and to witness a series of events that drags everyone involved toward a tragic ending

// Lulu is a woman’s fight for her life and self-determination in a society built on male power and the submission of the feminine to the male desire - it’s easy to condemn Lulu for all the deaths that happen along her path, and to dismiss the role of misogyny behind her destructive behaviour

// this is why I wanted to take her part and defend her - her story needs to be seen from an objective point of view rather than an emotional one. Action and events overtake feelings, but there’s one emotion that I hope the audience would still encounter: shame - so that they could take responsibility of how society has always seen Lulu, and would still see her today, and change that approach in their daily life