Neo Goddess

The female body was only accepted within the pictorial space when cloaked in mythical justification: Eve, Venus, Artemis, Mary. It wasn’t until the 19th century that Manet unveiled Olympia (1863), portraying a naked woman—yet not a divine one. She was urban, autonomous, present. The reaction was scandalised outrage. A body without myth proved intolerable; calls for its removal followed. That painting opened a portal—allowing art to gaze upon women without mythologising them, while revealing the social cost of such a gaze.

Neo Goddess revisits and subverts this genealogy. In a parallel reality, these bodies are far from idealised—they are mutant, synthetic, hybrid. Some appear mid-assembly inside spacecraft, caught in biomechanical processes of creation. There is no purity, no symmetry, no submission. Only exuberance, mutation, and desire—without the symbolic obedience that canonical beauty demands. They are fragmentary, mechanical, excessive, elusive.
Constructed through code, digital sculpture, 3D animation, and fragments of my own body.