MIJN P(v)AGINA | siah nuboer-creative

Mijn P(v)agina - Test Run

Art Direction, Design, Videography & Editing

2021 for Tori Productions

Description:
Mijn P(v)agina is an experimental theatre piece written by and for young women. The work plays on the layered meanings of its title: pagina (page) and vagina, exploring how language, identity, and womanhood intertwine. I was responsible for the visual identity, including poster design, social media visuals, and the promo video’s concept, filming, and editing.

Inspiration:
The visuals depict an abstract representation of the vagina, rendered in a way that feels both subtle and poetic. I was inspired by the minimalist aesthetic of the play itself, clean forms and quiet space, contrasted by the raw, chaotic energy that defines womanhood. The promo video mirrors this duality, shifting between the beautiful and the unsettling, softness and disruption.

Collaboration:
Created in collaboration with Tori Productions, this project allowed me to translate themes of vulnerability and strength into visual form. Mijn P(v)agina premiered as a test show and later ran publicly for three days, marking a moment where design and performance merged into an intimate visual narrative about self-expression and femininity.

Mijn P(v)agina - The Official Show

Art Direction, Design, Videography & Editing

Description:

For the official three-day run of Mijn P(v)agina, I continued developing the visual language established in the earlier test show. The aesthetic remained minimal and tactile, with textures drawn from the white button-up shirts worn by the actresses. These fabrics became both costume and canvas, evoking the fragility of paper and the intimacy of skin, a surface where stories are written and erased.

Visual Language:
The poster and social media visuals used this texture as their foundation, grounding the design in the physical world of the play. It was important to me that the visuals didn’t just promote the show but breathed with it, carrying the same restrained, poetic energy onstage into the audience’s first encounter with the work.

Promo Videos:
Two contrasting promo videos accompanied the production. In the first, the actresses prepare, doing their hair and makeup with care, performing beauty as ritual. In the second, that ritual unravels: they smear the makeup across their faces and cut their hair, confronting the distortion and release that come with defying expectation. Together, these videos mirror the duality at the heart of Mijn P(v)agina the tension between control and chaos, performance and truth, beauty and undoing.