Gemini - she's split in time

GEMINI

Tempera and oil on canvas

33 x 42 in. (83 x 106 cm)

2014

This trompe-l’oeil painting narrates an unsettling story of a woman split in time. A pregnant woman carries unborn babies who are already invited by their own personified deaths to a sad danse macabre; her nipples sink into convex and are stitched by a thread of her own hair. Her hollow leg is awkwardly joint by a page torn from a fashion magazine, where a red shoe combines modern high heels and pointy medieval crakows. On top of the paper floats a half-bio, half-mechanical broken butterfly.

In the right half of the painting, the woman’s other self seems to be more rooted in the future: she has horrifying terminator scars and is ripping her own shoulder open with bare fingers. Her suffering is reciprocated by an unknown foot underneath, which is pierced by an X and dripping blood. While her face overlaps a blurred photograph, her legs are linked to a renaissance-style drawing on a piece of wrinkled papyrus. The four legs in the painting intertwine and connect the two figures in a supernatural way. At the bottom-left corner of the painting, the artist left a note with her personal logo.