Language and femininity, Part of my several identities.
I don’t consider art as a therapy. I consider art as another way, another tool to explore, question and open a new door to see the world. the others. And ourselves. To look at it, and try understand it better. My writings are all about inquiring, sounding, and my drawings and paintings are an extension of it.
I wrote a lot about femininity, and for me femininity doesn’t define women. It’s one of many other identities. Just like the body. The body is the “prison of the soul” as Plato said. As a former ballet, I’ve been experiencing this sentence very concretely and it helped me to realize how prominent and domineering a body could be to the detriment of the mind.
This ambiguous complexity of this close, yet mysterious, relationship between those two concepts is what I want, or need, to examine, as a woman but also as an artist. In my writings, and in my un-writings.
Always navigating between concrete and abstract, to make sure there is enough space for all kinds of readings.