General Interests – Feminist practices, Abjection, The Grotesque, the Monstrous Feminine, Societal taboos, Class and Labour, Gender roles, Identity and Representation.
Practice – Multidisciplinary - mostly working with painting, sculpture and writing.
Starting from – Personal experiences and narratives, stories, family history of experiencing alienation, violence and that of manual labour and underpayment – working in agriculture as employees for land owners – paid with their own harvest and very low monetary remuneration.
Expanding onto – The Feminine Body and its representation, gender roles and expectations and the concept of primal repression.
Food and food scarcity, the interplay of food as a symbol, food as abject, food as threat.
What is important? – More than the representation or reclamation of power and ownership over the feminine body and agency my work is about the creation of small revolts, causing mischief, and sparking discomfort, inflicting small threats to the patriarchal order of law and language.
Why it is important? – Women breaking free of gender norms and rejecting and /or violating patriarchal rituals are labelled monstrous, and the level of monstrosity assigned according to how ‘unclean’ or ‘unruly’ they and their body is. My work serves as a catalyst for these violations to occur, and for space to be created, allowing anger to exist in a feminine body. It calls for restitution, it provokes and purposefully retracts elements to punish the expectations of the gaze. It proceeds without caution.