The Holy Art Gallery London, 2021

I responded to an open call for artists on the theme “the art of self-regulation” with a series of 4 oil portraits and a text titled “Reclamation”.

“Reclamation”

Much has to be said about the place of women in the arts. Mostly the object of male artists who apply their personal gaze to women's bodies, women have rarely been the subject creating the art. 

Or rather their works have not been recognised. 

Arguably art is le propre de l'Homme and as such it is hard to believe that women were never artists. Much more believable that they were excluded from the pedestal that male artists lived on.  

According to male artists, the woman is mystified, elegant, sexy, fantasy and effortlessly envoutante. Deified as such she is almost stripped of her humanity.

Women are first and foremost human beings, who shit smell laugh cry fight jump run fall travel speak read eat play in other words live. And their bodies are first and foremost vehicles for them to experience life, therefore they stretch bend bloat change and grow. 

In this series, I aim to reclaim my body for what it is: a vehicle of life. Neither an object of desire nor mystical femininity, simply a vessel which allows me to exist in 3D and try out the “human experience”.