_{Reclaiming Venus}

^{Reclaiming Venus is a medium-format photography series created in collaboration between artist Dalia Jacobs and photographer Ludovica Anzaldi. Conceived and directed by Jacobs—who also inhabits the images as subject—the work reclaims the archetype of Venus through a Palestinian lens.

“I stand in front of the lens as subject and author. My body becomes a political territory, reclaiming Venus through a Palestinian frame. The kuffiya and watermelon are not symbols of ornament but of resistance, survival, and defiance. These images strip away myth to confront erasure, insisting on presence and continuity.”

Shot on the Mediterranean Sea, the series situates the Palestinian body within the cultural canon of the Mediterranean, transforming Venus from a figure of Western mythology into one of defiance, persistence, and survival. The collaboration between Jacobs and Anzaldi highlights the tension between authorship and gaze, producing images that reject erasure and assert continuity.

All proceeds from Reclaiming Venus are directed to Palestine.}

^{With thanks to Double Why, Nina Fortuna, Ludovica Statuti, and Little Lion.}