And breathe… Wishing all our readers a lovely long weekend. This evocative painting was made by the Chilean, London-based artist Carolina Aguirre. It featured in an online exhibition last year, which examined “the outdated yet persistent association” between domesticity and the feminine, in the words of Madeleine Pollard for Elephant, and whether or not lockdown life had exacerbated the problem. This “quasi-mythological scene, in which a birdlike creature bursts forth from a woman’s chest … promises freedom and catharsis,” Pollard observes, “interpreting interiority not just in terms of physical domestic settings, but in terms of emotional and psychological inner worlds as well.”
