ALMOST A MIRACLE
I paint what I wish I’d seen sooner.
Images shape how we see bodies, desire, and faith — and none of those are neutral.
LATEST FROM THE STUDIO : CORPUS VENENUM
I've been working on snakes lately.
Most people see them as masculine, evil. I see something else: curves, cleverness, seduction — and the sacred power of shedding skin.
I organized a large photoshoot with live snakes. The paintings are just beginning.
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL (2018-2024)
This series explores body fluids — tears, blood, sperm.
As Françoise Héritier wrote, the way societies treat fluids reveals their deep structures.
These are intimate substances. But also political ones.
(RE)-VISITATIONS (2021 -2022)
This series was born from the need to reclaim the images that shaped me. As a child, it was religious iconography and baroque ecstasy, seen through the haze of incense and stained glass. Later, it was the glossy, seductive aesthetics of fashion and advertising — which I didn’t just consume, but helped produce. I spent years crafting those images, learning how they seduce, how they manipulate. And I saw, from the inside, how the female body is staged: adored, adorned, and yet always contained or dominated.
Not a Virgin. 2021. oil on canvas. 60x48 in — 152x121 cm
NYMPHOMANIA (2020)
Daphnee and her birds. Oil on canvas. 28x22 in. 2021.
During the Covid-19 lockdown, stuck in New York and starved of nature, I began painting it. Longing turned into reflection. I remembered the nymphs from 19th-century painting—bodies draped in flowers, softened into collectibles—and went back to Ovid. Nymphs are minor characters in mythology, but central to my work. Always sensual, often silenced, they’re nature’s avatars—and too often, its victims.
In myths, they’re punished for desiring, or for being desired. Their bodies are sites of projection, pleasure, and control. But what if that stopped?
PORTRAITS (2018 - ongoing)
Portraits are where it all began.
Always made from life, in oil or pastel.
If you ever visit my studio, beware — you might not leave without being painted.
