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‘HARDCORE SOFTWARE’ by the eponymous collective in collaboration with Hypha Studios

@hardcore__software @hyphastudios

Private View Thursday 28th May, 6-9pm
RSVP link in bio

130 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M

@esteeinspace

Estée Vanhoonacker is a London-based artist and
MA Architecture student at the Royal College of
Art. Her practice uses a tactile language to explore bodily (dis)connection as a consequence of imposed societal systems, primarily in relation to our menstruating bodies. Working across bodily and spatial scales, from installation to performance, she fleshes out the intimate contortions and suppressed sensations within, seeking to reclaim bodily connection and agency.

Poster Image: tubal litigation (2025) by Estee
Vanhoonacker

‘HARDCORE SOFTWARE’ by the eponymous collective in collaboration with Hypha Studios

@hardcore__software @hyphastudios

Private View Thursday 28th May, 6-9pm
RSVP link in bio

130 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M

@esteeinspace

Estée Vanhoonacker is a London-based artist and
MA Architecture student at the Royal College of
Art. Her practice uses a tactile language to explore bodily (dis)connection as a consequence of imposed societal systems, primarily in relation to our menstruating bodies. Working across bodily and spatial scales, from installation to performance, she fleshes out the intimate contortions and suppressed sensations within, seeking to reclaim bodily connection and agency.

Poster Image: tubal litigation (2025) by Estee
Vanhoonacker

an extracted clip to show the two overlayed shots and position change at each stop, from:

[28 different 24 hour days, 2024]

*disclaimer haha, everyone who entered shot knew I was filming* x

about:
linear society expects us to perform the same each 24 hour day, directly contradicting our endocrine system that has on average 28 different 24 hour days.

coincidentally, I realised the circle line runs in a 28 stop loop from edgware road back to edgware road, mirroring our 28 day inner cycle. As such, I documented two performances unfolding over a singular loop, each with a different action. In the first, I restricted my body remaining in the same position. In the second, I let my body lead engaging with the tube carriage and changing position at each stop.

Together, the two films create a dialogue exposing the expectations imposed on our bodies versus the natural, ever-changing expression of our bodies over the course of a cycle.

link to full version: https://ms.rca-architecture.com/2025/twenty-eight-different-twenty-four-hour-days

breaking down the two shots of:

[28 different 24 hour days, performance, 2024]

circle line. 28 stops. two journeys. one I constrained myself to a single position for the entire duration of the cycle, the other I allow my body to change with each stop along the [menstrual] cycle.

this clip shows the two seperate journeys before overlaying them x

and her angles from second daugher iii 💋

and her angles from second daugher iii 💋

and her angles from second daugher iii 💋

and her angles from second daugher iii 💋

and her angles from second daugher iii 💋

and her angles from second daugher iii 💋

I just loveee this first photo of her inner organs٠࣪⭑

plus some other snaps from the making process

(also s.o to elsa’s gorgg new song @elsaberzigotti )

I just loveee this first photo of her inner organs٠࣪⭑

plus some other snaps from the making process

(also s.o to elsa’s gorgg new song @elsaberzigotti )

I just loveee this first photo of her inner organs٠࣪⭑

plus some other snaps from the making process

(also s.o to elsa’s gorgg new song @elsaberzigotti )

I just loveee this first photo of her inner organs٠࣪⭑

plus some other snaps from the making process

(also s.o to elsa’s gorgg new song @elsaberzigotti )

I just loveee this first photo of her inner organs٠࣪⭑

plus some other snaps from the making process

(also s.o to elsa’s gorgg new song @elsaberzigotti )

I just loveee this first photo of her inner organs٠࣪⭑

plus some other snaps from the making process

(also s.o to elsa’s gorgg new song @elsaberzigotti )

I just loveee this first photo of her inner organs٠࣪⭑

plus some other snaps from the making process

(also s.o to elsa’s gorgg new song @elsaberzigotti )

she’s here༺

[menstrual agency: contortion of the menstrual body, 2025]

we live in a society designed in accordance with the linear rhythm of the male body, in a society that does not consider the cyclical rhythm of the menstrual body. while our bodies naturally change week by week, linear society expects us to perform the same each day, teaching us that our wild bodies are the issue, rather than the very system imposed on us.

as a consequence we remain deeply disconnected from our bodies and find ourselves living spaces not designed for us. so we contort our bodies to fit into this capitalist mode of production where we are expected show up with the same productivity, energy levels and (un)emotions each day of the month. despite our resilience, it places pressure on our bodies affecting our health in the long term.

as such, in response to this urgency, I created this 1:1 sculptural ‘sofa’ that gives our bodies agency to mould space to our own rhythmic needs within these imposed societal systems.

whilst functional, conceptually this piece acts as a critique on the contortion of the female body. the outer ‘skin’, composed of hand sewn bandages, comments on the wounding of the female body by the patriarchal and capitalist imposed linear systems. And in the continual neglect of our own rhythms we start to become tolerant to the symptoms effecting our own long term health, bandaging them up instead of addressing the root societal cause.

she’s here༺

[menstrual agency: contortion of the menstrual body, 2025]

we live in a society designed in accordance with the linear rhythm of the male body, in a society that does not consider the cyclical rhythm of the menstrual body. while our bodies naturally change week by week, linear society expects us to perform the same each day, teaching us that our wild bodies are the issue, rather than the very system imposed on us.

as a consequence we remain deeply disconnected from our bodies and find ourselves living spaces not designed for us. so we contort our bodies to fit into this capitalist mode of production where we are expected show up with the same productivity, energy levels and (un)emotions each day of the month. despite our resilience, it places pressure on our bodies affecting our health in the long term.

as such, in response to this urgency, I created this 1:1 sculptural ‘sofa’ that gives our bodies agency to mould space to our own rhythmic needs within these imposed societal systems.

whilst functional, conceptually this piece acts as a critique on the contortion of the female body. the outer ‘skin’, composed of hand sewn bandages, comments on the wounding of the female body by the patriarchal and capitalist imposed linear systems. And in the continual neglect of our own rhythms we start to become tolerant to the symptoms effecting our own long term health, bandaging them up instead of addressing the root societal cause.

she’s here༺

[menstrual agency: contortion of the menstrual body, 2025]

we live in a society designed in accordance with the linear rhythm of the male body, in a society that does not consider the cyclical rhythm of the menstrual body. while our bodies naturally change week by week, linear society expects us to perform the same each day, teaching us that our wild bodies are the issue, rather than the very system imposed on us.

as a consequence we remain deeply disconnected from our bodies and find ourselves living spaces not designed for us. so we contort our bodies to fit into this capitalist mode of production where we are expected show up with the same productivity, energy levels and (un)emotions each day of the month. despite our resilience, it places pressure on our bodies affecting our health in the long term.

as such, in response to this urgency, I created this 1:1 sculptural ‘sofa’ that gives our bodies agency to mould space to our own rhythmic needs within these imposed societal systems.

whilst functional, conceptually this piece acts as a critique on the contortion of the female body. the outer ‘skin’, composed of hand sewn bandages, comments on the wounding of the female body by the patriarchal and capitalist imposed linear systems. And in the continual neglect of our own rhythms we start to become tolerant to the symptoms effecting our own long term health, bandaging them up instead of addressing the root societal cause.

she’s here༺

[menstrual agency: contortion of the menstrual body, 2025]

we live in a society designed in accordance with the linear rhythm of the male body, in a society that does not consider the cyclical rhythm of the menstrual body. while our bodies naturally change week by week, linear society expects us to perform the same each day, teaching us that our wild bodies are the issue, rather than the very system imposed on us.

as a consequence we remain deeply disconnected from our bodies and find ourselves living spaces not designed for us. so we contort our bodies to fit into this capitalist mode of production where we are expected show up with the same productivity, energy levels and (un)emotions each day of the month. despite our resilience, it places pressure on our bodies affecting our health in the long term.

as such, in response to this urgency, I created this 1:1 sculptural ‘sofa’ that gives our bodies agency to mould space to our own rhythmic needs within these imposed societal systems.

whilst functional, conceptually this piece acts as a critique on the contortion of the female body. the outer ‘skin’, composed of hand sewn bandages, comments on the wounding of the female body by the patriarchal and capitalist imposed linear systems. And in the continual neglect of our own rhythms we start to become tolerant to the symptoms effecting our own long term health, bandaging them up instead of addressing the root societal cause.

she’s here༺

[menstrual agency: contortion of the menstrual body, 2025]

we live in a society designed in accordance with the linear rhythm of the male body, in a society that does not consider the cyclical rhythm of the menstrual body. while our bodies naturally change week by week, linear society expects us to perform the same each day, teaching us that our wild bodies are the issue, rather than the very system imposed on us.

as a consequence we remain deeply disconnected from our bodies and find ourselves living spaces not designed for us. so we contort our bodies to fit into this capitalist mode of production where we are expected show up with the same productivity, energy levels and (un)emotions each day of the month. despite our resilience, it places pressure on our bodies affecting our health in the long term.

as such, in response to this urgency, I created this 1:1 sculptural ‘sofa’ that gives our bodies agency to mould space to our own rhythmic needs within these imposed societal systems.

whilst functional, conceptually this piece acts as a critique on the contortion of the female body. the outer ‘skin’, composed of hand sewn bandages, comments on the wounding of the female body by the patriarchal and capitalist imposed linear systems. And in the continual neglect of our own rhythms we start to become tolerant to the symptoms effecting our own long term health, bandaging them up instead of addressing the root societal cause.

she’s here༺

[menstrual agency: contortion of the menstrual body, 2025]

we live in a society designed in accordance with the linear rhythm of the male body, in a society that does not consider the cyclical rhythm of the menstrual body. while our bodies naturally change week by week, linear society expects us to perform the same each day, teaching us that our wild bodies are the issue, rather than the very system imposed on us.

as a consequence we remain deeply disconnected from our bodies and find ourselves living spaces not designed for us. so we contort our bodies to fit into this capitalist mode of production where we are expected show up with the same productivity, energy levels and (un)emotions each day of the month. despite our resilience, it places pressure on our bodies affecting our health in the long term.

as such, in response to this urgency, I created this 1:1 sculptural ‘sofa’ that gives our bodies agency to mould space to our own rhythmic needs within these imposed societal systems.

whilst functional, conceptually this piece acts as a critique on the contortion of the female body. the outer ‘skin’, composed of hand sewn bandages, comments on the wounding of the female body by the patriarchal and capitalist imposed linear systems. And in the continual neglect of our own rhythms we start to become tolerant to the symptoms effecting our own long term health, bandaging them up instead of addressing the root societal cause.

..& the wearable dress version💋

..& the wearable dress version💋

..& the wearable dress version💋

tubal ligation n olives mwahh

(info on last post💋)

tubal ligation n olives mwahh

(info on last post💋)

[tubual ligation, 2025]

tubal ligation [noun] ‘a surgical procedure for female
sterilization which involves severing and tying the
fallopian tubes’

severed from the knowledge and natural rhythms of our
wombs as a result of patriarchal systems, this piece
speaks of the metaphorical tubal ligation between us
and the connection to and information regarding our own bodies.

intuitively tying tights together, I created this
rhythmic lattice pattern, each layer interlinked and
supporting the next. I like to see each layer as the generations of women before, each lifting us closer to ourselves again.

[tubual ligation, 2025]

tubal ligation [noun] ‘a surgical procedure for female
sterilization which involves severing and tying the
fallopian tubes’

severed from the knowledge and natural rhythms of our
wombs as a result of patriarchal systems, this piece
speaks of the metaphorical tubal ligation between us
and the connection to and information regarding our own bodies.

intuitively tying tights together, I created this
rhythmic lattice pattern, each layer interlinked and
supporting the next. I like to see each layer as the generations of women before, each lifting us closer to ourselves again.

[tubual ligation, 2025]

tubal ligation [noun] ‘a surgical procedure for female
sterilization which involves severing and tying the
fallopian tubes’

severed from the knowledge and natural rhythms of our
wombs as a result of patriarchal systems, this piece
speaks of the metaphorical tubal ligation between us
and the connection to and information regarding our own bodies.

intuitively tying tights together, I created this
rhythmic lattice pattern, each layer interlinked and
supporting the next. I like to see each layer as the generations of women before, each lifting us closer to ourselves again.

part iii) bodies inhabiting and moulding the duvets

[a soft agency, 2024]

wish I’d taken more proper photos to do a series of these xx

part iii) bodies inhabiting and moulding the duvets

[a soft agency, 2024]

wish I’d taken more proper photos to do a series of these xx

part iii) bodies inhabiting and moulding the duvets

[a soft agency, 2024]

wish I’d taken more proper photos to do a series of these xx

part ii) snip snip

[a soft agency, 2024]

lil throwback to the duvets

part i) using my body to intuitively define a series of voids⋆

[a soft agency, 2024]

my work is about reclaiming the connection to and retuning agency to our bodies, in particular menstruating bodies.

these then reworked spatial devices are made to be experienced through the body, allowing the body to intertwine and mould space itself in new ways.

lil throwback to the duvets

part i) using my body to intuitively define a series of voids⋆

[a soft agency, 2024]

my work is about reclaiming the connection to and retuning agency to our bodies, in particular menstruating bodies.

these then reworked spatial devices are made to be experienced through the body, allowing the body to intertwine and mould space itself in new ways.

lil throwback to the duvets

part i) using my body to intuitively define a series of voids⋆

[a soft agency, 2024]

my work is about reclaiming the connection to and retuning agency to our bodies, in particular menstruating bodies.

these then reworked spatial devices are made to be experienced through the body, allowing the body to intertwine and mould space itself in new ways.

lil throwback to the duvets

part i) using my body to intuitively define a series of voids⋆

[a soft agency, 2024]

my work is about reclaiming the connection to and retuning agency to our bodies, in particular menstruating bodies.

these then reworked spatial devices are made to be experienced through the body, allowing the body to intertwine and mould space itself in new ways.