The project MANUAL begins with my experience of sexual violence in childhood and the passivity I internalised as a woman. Through drawing, sculpture, puppetry, set, film, fabric and soft sculpture, the work reveals how the body is objectified under external pressure and structured to operate as if following a manual. The work does not remain at the level of a personal event. It lays bare the imposed femininity and oppression operating within social structures. The objectified female body moves across the categories of puppet, animal, flesh and machine, and is pushed to an extreme through explicit excess and distortion. Fragmented and hybridised, the body foregrounds a language of disgust and fear. Yet by presenting oppression and violence so explicitly, this grotesque and excessive body twists and critiques the brutality and absurdity of the structures that produce them. The project resists trauma, internalised oppression and control, and insists on the possibility of a body capable of moving beyond them.