Normophobia - Prints and Collages

This printmaking series moves between two poles: freedom and control, chaos and structure. Each print begins with animal-like figures — ambiguous bodies that could be in pain, in pleasure, or in failed attempts to speak. Rendered through drypoint and monoprint techniques, these creatures carry dense, unpredictable textures. In many works, they inhabit chaotic, disordered spaces — printed in stark black and white or on aged, colored paper that feels fragile or archival. There is no fixed setting, only pressure: these are interior worlds boiling with chemical reactions and emotional residue. Nothing is repeated. Each image is a one-time confrontation. In other pieces, I cut the printed figures out of their chaotic grounds and reinsert them into flat, silent environments. These spaces are organized by lines — sewing patterns, street maps, arrow signs — sometimes even framed by the negative edge of a photo. These are languages of instruction and restriction, visual systems that attempt to tailor the body, guide it, or capture it. A naked animal-like figure may now appear trapped between lines used to shape a woman’s dress, or crossing street markings that suddenly belong to an interior room. Mythical figures like the Minotaur or Icarus emerge in these structured spaces, but they are transformed — re-gendered, animalized, made intimate and strange. The tension between these two approaches is central. Some figures dissolve in chaos; others are disciplined by systems. Yet both reflect a single question: “what happens when bodies refuse to conform, but cannot fully escape?” These prints are not about clarity or repetition. They are about imprinting resistance — in flesh, in ink, and in the fault lines of form itself.

Works: 8