Almatheya Andra Andreea

ROMANIAN ARTWORKS

This cartoon style series of works have a feminist appeal. They present cameos of the roles women play. Multitasking, she appears to have everything under control even though it may involve pain, and bloody torture.

In ‘Say Yes to Temptation, No to Stupidity’ set against a wallpaper of crumbling crazed skulls she performs her own surgery clamping her lips apart in permanent sexual arousal. A red cross victim daubed in blood, she is ‘plastered’ with taped breasts, which emblazon “no! just”. A response maybe to Lady Gaga’s incitements to girls re: fashionable body alteration & promiscuity?

In 'Sadness', a beautiful vamp, impeccably coiffured and manicured, her long nails drip with blood, but whose? Lilies bleed above echoing her siren red lips; in 'Broken Dreams' screaming death heads bound together by flowing strands of hair sport beautiful waves ‘because they’re worth it.’

In ‘Doll Love’ with eyes made up in rainbow hues, the mother is in touch with the moon, picking up smiling toys, unsmiling at what she sees. ‘The King and Queen of Utopia’ sees her becoming fast submerged in a sea of discarded wide-eyed dolls heads, becoming a wood - grained mannequin herself. The Queen holding the King...

In ‘Playing a game with the Universe’ she presides Goddess-like over the Universe, puzzling out the chequered moebius strip that is life. Do lesbianism or the sisterly kisses across the divide in ‘The Kiss’ provide a radical way out? Trepanned in ‘Dream’, her head spills forth imagery she can colour in for us: she has the tools to question the underlying foundations of fluff, fun and ‘good times’.