Painting is a bodily experience, and I want the energy and duration of the process to remain visible: to feel fiercely lived in.

I believe that a painting needs to hold tension of multiple opposites: abstraction and figuration, sensuality and aggression, looseness and control, dirt and clarity. I work across these axes to create a balanced intensity where painting and drawing coexist.

Female-like figures provoke and intrigue by distorting expectations. Drawing from the tradition of the female nude, I work through neoclassical poses: reclining, arms raised. My compositions are intentionally fluid, and left without full resolution. Color functions as an entry point into the work, where the female body is both subject, object and muse.

— Anna Fo.