Artist Statement

With my artistic practice, I create oil paintings, watercolors, and sculptural objects to focus on issues of gender, body, and the self. I explore different aspects of human existence through the subject, a woman searching for and creating her identity, and finding self-empowerment. 
This woman strikes a balance within herself, her body, and her sexuality. She seeks and positions herself in a world that is full of ambitions, disappointments, and patriarchal attitudes, a modern, constantly changing society, where globalization, migration, and real politics occur. 
I see the female body as a source of vitality, desire, and power. My attention to the body comes from my immigrant experience. I left my country and everything I had, but my body is inseparable. It belongs only to me. It physically presents itself, like an anchor connecting me with reality.