the garden of earthly delights (2026)
photography
In this work, I position my own body within a fragment of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, specifically the section depicting the Garden of Eden.
Through drag performance and makeup inspired by one of the painting's unicorn-like creatures, I construct a visual encounter between a contemporary
queer body and Bosch's fantastical world.
This gesture is informed by the irony embedded within the title The Garden of Earthly Delights. Historically, ideas of pleasure, desire, and sexuality have
occupied an ambivalent position within Western culture, particularly in relation to women and queer subjects. These identities have often been framed
through contradictory narratives: condemned as excessive, artificial, dangerous, or unnatural, yet simultaneously fetishised, exoticised, and rendered
objects of fascination. The work engages with this tension between moral rejection and desire, examining how bodies positioned outside normative
frameworks are frequently subjected to both exclusion and attraction.
the garden of earthly delights (2026) , installation for “E virou!” (2026) at Cassandra,
mirror, transfred image, rhinestones, holographic curtain, variable dimensions.
Like queer subjects, mythical creatures often occupy a space outside social norms while simultaneously becoming sites of projection for collective
fantasies,
anxieties, and desires. When isolated from the broader moral narrative of Bosch's triptych, the Garden of Eden appears less as a site of
innocence than as a strange and unfamiliar paradise.