Egle Otto

Pandora's Dressing Room, 2022

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 80 × 63 cm
Bidding opens at: €5,720

In Pandora’s Dressing Room, Egle Otto questions how the female has been represented, defined and assigned particular roles across different cultures and histories. Drawing on female figures from mythology and cultural history, she deconstructs inherited images of womanhood and reactivates them through a new visual language of symbols, fragmented bodies, shifting forms and colour.

Rather than reproducing familiar archetypes, Otto transforms them, asking how ideas of femininity continue to be shaped by cultural expectations and social structures. Within Negotiating Belonging, the work raises the question of where the female is expected to belong – within which roles, identities and narratives – and what happens when these prescribed positions are dismantled and reimagined.

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Bidding on this work opens at €5,720.

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