My work explores how feminine identity is continuously constructed and reconstructed—both
consciously through personal choice and unconsciously through the internalization of social
expectations and power structures. I am interested in the tension between self-definition and the
ways identity is shaped by the subconscious acceptance of behaviors, beliefs, and desires of
others.
Through figurative painting, I use intimate domestic spaces and garments as symbols of
vulnerability, performance, protection, and control. Clothing, particularly lingerie, functions as
an extension of identity: a surface that carries emotional residue while existing between
concealment and display. By enlarging, abstracting and fragmenting these forms, I transform
them into unstable structures that hold contradiction—protection and exposure, empowerment
and vulnerability, love and anger, discipline and seduction.
My paintings are built through accumulation: layered paint, stained canvas, erasure, and
disruption. This process reflects the instability of identity itself, where deliberate choices
intersect with inherited beliefs and systems of power. Moving between precision and collapse,
carefully rendered passages of fabric and flesh are interrupted by scraping, dripping, and gestural
marks, creating tension between control and surrender.
The body, when present, is fragmented and unresolved. Cropped limbs, distorted forms, and
compressed spaces resist idealization, presenting the figure as an identity shaped by pressure and
struggle. Ultimately, these works examine how femininity is shaped through the intimate
relationship between body, object, space, and power, inviting viewers to consider identity not as
fixed, but as something continually negotiated, performed, and transformed.