The project PIEL (Skin), which forms part of the Carne de mi carne [Flesh of My Flesh] series, is a documentary in which the artist mixes realism and speculation with fiction to challenge roles and attitudes towards gender and the use of power, tradition and contemporaneity, conservatism and progressivism, rural and urban, manual labour and digital labour, masculine and feminine. The project does not only show us a personal history but a history that portrays contemporary society, exposing the consequences of a globalised world in the rural environment. All of this is approached from a gender perspective and always with humour, revealing the shield that emerges directly from a part of the body, the skin, to resist the external hegemonic system imposed by a heteropatriarchal society. As the artist says, “It’s not easy being a woman, being born in a small town and identifying as a feminist. Not yet. It’s not easy. It’s not pleasant. It’s not what you expect."

The project is a form-based research on ‘Steak dysmorphia’ (Touraille, 2008), a theory of evolution that claims that men size is bigger because under gender hierarchical regimes found in all cultures and all times, men are allocated the best food.