Her Life, My Life is a monumental contemporary sculpture exploring female autonomy, liberation, and embodied agency.
In her life, my life, a four metre high female figure becomes visible, breaking free from an inverted cross. This cross, rooted in Christianity, symbolizes a religion that for centuries assigned women a subordinate role and erased them from history, a religion that suppressed female sexuality and shrouded it in shame.
The inverted cross, traditionally a sign of Saint Peter’s humility, has over time acquired associations with rebellion, anti clericalism, and even satanism. In this work, it takes on a new meaning: not a symbol of destruction, but of radical reversal. It represents a woman reclaiming herself, a figure who plunges downward with complete surrender, on her way toward liberation. Her downward hanging, fanning hair embodies the freedom she longs for and fights for.
A freedom not defined by licentiousness, but by agency over one’s own body and mind. By living without shame about one’s sexuality or womanhood.
The rust evokes a sense of heaviness and transience, of structures slowly crumbling away, yet it also points to the earthly, to life itself.
