The series "Habitar" (“Inhabit”) is an ongoing series exploring the various ways of inhabiting the body through sexual and gender expression. In each of the pieces and the layers of paint within them, the multiplicity of being and the artist's feelings while navigating different gender and sexual expressions are examined. "Women are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny – period pains, sore boobs, childbirth. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don’t. They have to seek it out. They invent all these gods and demons so they can feel guilty about things, which is something we do very well on our own. And then they create wars so they can feel things and touch each other and when there aren’t any wars they can play rugby. We have it all going on in here, inside. We have pain on a cycle for years and years and years, and then just when you feel you are making peace with it all, what happens? The menopause comes. The fucking menopause comes and it is the most wonderful fucking thing in the world. No longer a slave, no longer a machine with parts. Free."

Name Of Artist (So You Are Searchable!)

Libia Rocha

Exact Dimensions

110 x 150 cm 43.3 x 59 in

Year Created

2023

Materials

Acrylic on canvas