Selfie

Selfie

Original Painting by Christina Michalopoulou. Painted with oil and acrylic colors on stretched canvas, dimensions 50x70x3 cm

A female body figure, a close up, a selfie of a mastectomy. The story exists, the young woman took her own photo, capturing the power to give herself the right to fight, the opportunity to a new life, and the painter tried to give a raw, realistic sight of her truth.
“Selfie” is part of the “Female project” which started in 2019, a series of paintings aiming to express the contemporary women loneliness, fears, challenges and isolation. The whole series is a combination of photorealistic body parts and pop aesthetic lettering.