* Barbara Creed, Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), 1.

** J. Jack Halberstam, Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012), 220.

STATEMENT

I work as an artist and a curator. My work is based on research, the collective exchange of wisdom and skills, and the intimate experience of having a body.

I paint using tempera and oil techniques. Drawn to speculative fiction and Feminist New Wave Cinema*, my practice delves into gender dynamics and the concept of abjection. In most of my paintings, I depict the human or animal body. I am interested in the moment when the distinction between the two begins to blur. The body opens up, cracks, becomes permeable – from within or from without. I invent it, tear it apart, and reassemble it anew. I see my paintings as one voice among many contributing to a narrative of female and queer perspectives.

I think of curating and collective work as a way of planting seeds and creating alliances. ​​I am committed to holding spaces for constructing new narratives through polyphony, dialogue and contradiction. I am committed to be the fly in the ointment, the wrench in the machinery**. My work focuses on collective projects and processes.

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