A Tangle of Tender Hunger, 2026
Oil on canvas
Within the complexity of lived experience — lesbian relationships, complex emotions, the female body, queerness, and society — I try to say something about the present What happens to the female body when it exceeds the predetermined gender and what does the concealment of homosexual narratives do to us? What draws me to the body is both its limits and its possibilities. I see the body as an opportunity to push boundaries of what I myself am confronted with, what is considered acceptable, the fixed ideas about gender, norms and sexuality. What does it mean to express emotions such as aggression, pleasure, and sexual desire — feelings women are often discouraged from exploring or even acknowledging? In the painting A Tangle of Tender Hunger the viewer is caught in witnessing something similar to both fight and dance, playfulness and seriousness. The painting holds this contradiction in a rich ambiguity: are the figures longing for each other, or are they in conflict? Perhaps both.
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