visual artist

Black Breasts disrupts conventional religious and cultural imagery by centring the female body within a traditionally patriarchal framework. The installation consists of silk sculptures embroidered with metallic thread, each shaped as a breast, meticulously arranged in a cruciform formation. This structure, both sacred and subversive, engages with the iconography of the crucifixion while reconfiguring the notion of divine power.

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At the heart of this work is the cyclical motif that defines the artist’s practice, a continuous, spiralling exploration of creation, regeneration, and transformation. The repeated breast forms echo this rhythmic pattern, emphasising that the feminine is not singular or passive but an unending, generative force.

 

Photographed in a church and positioned before a crucifixion scene, the installation creates a striking visual dialogue between femininity and spiritual authority. The breast, an archetypal symbol of nurture, creation, and resilience, asserts itself as central to the sacred, shifting the perception of divinity from suffering to renewal, from sacrifice to perpetual creation.

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The interplay between the silk’s softness and the metallic embroidery’s rigidity reflects the dual nature of femininity, both delicate and indomitable. Black Breasts invites the viewer to reconsider the sacred as an ever-expanding, cyclical force in which the feminine is recognised as fundamental to existence itself.