- Mixed media on canvas
- 50 x 50 cm
The works presented relate to the experience of menstruation not as a biological fact, but as a field of tension between the body's natural rhythm and its cultural and social interpretation.
In the work "Between" the body withdraws. There is no direct depiction and no red. The natural is concealed and placed in a state of silence and tension. The figure remains between revelation and protection, between presence and disappearance.
In the work "Red Silence" the color red becomes visible, but it does not remain neutral. It functions as a sign – as something charged with meaning and shifted into the realm of fear, control, and cultural projection.
In this constellation, "Blut ohne Gewalt" (Blood Without Violence) reveals its central paradox: violence appears not as a physical act, but as a process of interpretation. What is actually natural is reinterpreted into something that requires control, distance, and invisibility. The resulting consequences are predominantly borne by women – on physical, social, and economic levels.
This concerns not only the handling of menstruation itself but also the associated material realities: hygiene products, reproductive choices, and care work. Reproduction is not a purely biological given, but a socially and economically structured space in which questions of responsibility, dependence, and freedom of choice intertwine. Whether and when a pregnancy occurs is often not just a biological decision today, but also a social and economic one.
This logic continues in social structures where reproductive and caring work remains unequally distributed and often economically devalued – visible, among other things, in the gender pay gap.
The images do not illustrate these connections. Rather, they make visible the consequences that have become inscribed in both bodies and social structures.
