My practice revolves around the opening of
the body, when the limit of the skin is trespassed and there is an access to the
inside. How can I make sense of what happens there and then?
I use woodcut and etching as processes that
involve 'wounding’ the plate and both the plate and the paper refer to the
surface of the body. Religious and sexual associations intertwine in a personal
mythology where the vagina is a central symbol, a rich source of metaphors wherein sexuality,
birthing and menstruating explode into the realm of the occult, supernatural
and religious. The body in my work is marked by an ambiguous genital opening
where the vaginal and the phallic can fuse and become a fantastic polymorphous
fluid feature of the body.
My practice is heavily influenced by medieval
anatomical and Christian imagery, where
the body is distorted and exaggerated for the purpose of telling a story. I am
also inspired by Shunga, traditional erotic Japanese prints, and the explicit
detail with which the sexual body is represented.
