Costillas
Composed & Performed by STEFA*
Direction & Concept by stefa marin alarcon
Directed by Ana Paula Teixeira
Edited by Fox Maxy
Production Assistants: Andrea Montesdeoca, Lú Rivera Vásquez, Mike Spears
Garments by The Mob Studios
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I was born with an extra rib. It made me think of our origin stories. If “woman comes from man’s rib”, but I was born with this extra rib, this power, doesn’t that make me closer to a God then to Man?
A reckoning of our creation myths and a reclamation of my body, my gender, and my truth. A cataclysmic journey of self expansion.
Behind the scenes photos by Mike Spears