Since 2012, Ewa Juszkiewicz has been working on a series in which she turns historical portraits inside-out, challenging the stereotypical perception of a woman’s beauty in classical, European painting. Instead of a beautiful face, she transformed the subject’s head into an elaborate hairstyle, or filled the face with flowers and ribbons.
“Through the deconstruction of historical portraits, she undermines their constant, indisputable character and tries to influence the way we perceive them. Juszkiewicz experiments with the form of the female figure and face, balancing on the border between what is human and inhuman,” her website reads.
The Polish painter is represented by by Galerie Rolando Anselmi in Berlin, where she will have a solo exhibition in November and December, 2019.
