- Mixed media on canvas
- 50 x 50 cm
The presented works 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 "Red Silence," the color red becomes visible but 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 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 this constellation, "Blood Without Violence" reveals its central paradox: violence does not appear as a physical act, but as a process of interpretation. What is actually natural is reinterpreted as something that requires control, distance, and invisibility. The resulting consequences are predominantly borne by women – on a physical, social, and economic level.
This applies not only to the handling of menstruation itself but also to 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 intersect. Whether and when a pregnancy occurs is often not solely a biological decision today, but also a social and economic one.
This logic continues in social structures where reproductive and care 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 inscribed themselves in both bodies and social structures.
