Deal with the glitch on your shoulder, 2026
Oil on canvas
In the painting Deal with the Glitch on Your Shoulder you see two queer female bodies occupy positions traditionally associated with masculinity. They take up space aggressively, yet remain intimately connected. Their eye contact with the viewer creates an unsettling closeness that balances power and vulnerability. Rather than conforming to the ideal of the body as controlled, coherent, and unified. the unruly body resists such expectations. It refuses containment and predictability. It leaks, fragments, and exposes the instability beneath the illusion of perfect order. To discover through a queer lens that allows us to perceive bodies, desires and belongings that have been lost or unthinkable within normative history. Painting’s opportunity to give form to a body that extends beyond our imagination. Where reality is traced beyond the stage, moving past the safety of realistic depiction. bodies that refuse to conform to cultural expectations of speech, behavior, and gendered attributes. Their refusal becomes a kind of glitch — a failure to perform according to binary expectations — and I see this glitch as a form of resistance that reveals truths about our bodies.
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