Otherness (2021-2023) is a series of tactile artworks that explores bodyhood, tactile visuality, femininity, historical heritage and artistic self-referentiality. The relationship with one’s own body is deconstructed and reestablished through a series of tactile objects, paintings and sculptures.

 

Objects of art are becoming bodies in space - pulled by gravity, sensitive to touch, carrying a bodylike pathos... Soft incarnate colors evoke a living, pulsating being; a variety of materials are simultaneously referring to an inherited history of ideals and thought.

 

The use of drapery and sculptural materials alludes softly to remains of Antiquity - the works explore the postmodern crisis of the mutable body (particularly the feminine body), while touching upon the greater historical and philosophical context of the western civilisation.

 

The works itself are self-referential, examining the conventions of painting and sculpture, such as the frame and the format. Some of them are given skin. The viewer is engaged in proprioceptive exploration of the works, partaking in the tactile and empathic female gaze.