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"sa mère", 2025
Mural intervention and graffiti on a wooden panel coated with levkas
24 x 18 cm
unique
courtesy of the artist
image © Katya Ev Anton
view of the solo exhibition Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201, CC Strombeek (Be), 2025
"A spray-painted intervention on a wall and a wooden panel coated with levkas—a traditional gesso used as the base for religious tempera paintings, also known as “icons”. This pristine surface, meant to carry a sacred image, is tagged with an enigmatic inscription: sa mère (“his/her/their mother”). The phrase, which evokes both lineage and maternal origin, also functions in French slang as an insult—a shorthand for expressions like nique ta mère (“fuck your mother”). By inscribing these words onto a surface historically associated to the sacred, the artist creates a tension between the figure of the mother and the everyday mechanisms of patriarchal discourse that sexualize and degrade the female body. In doing so, they turn an insult into a tribute". Azad Asifovich, Melanie Weill, translation Siena Muller
Body of works "Lactating Bodies"
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Related exhibitions
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Solo exhibition Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201, 2025
Group exhibition Over my (dead) body, 2019