IT'S TIME TO TALK






2019
Six-part series, acrylic on paper, each 70 × 50 cm
This series translates archaeological artifacts—figurines reproduced in books—into contemporary, frontal body images. With simple outlines, dots, and cross-shaped divisions, totem-like figures emerge somewhere between mask and torso. They appear to speak: about origin, protection, fertility—and about the presence of our bodies today.
The title is meant literally. One figure was deliberately painted with only one breast—a quiet homage to a friend after her mastectomy; she later passed away. The work holds the tension between vulnerability and dignity, between loss and self-assertion. It’s Time to Talk invites us to speak openly about illness, grief, and female bodies—beyond taboos, with tenderness and clarity.