"With an expansive selection including paintings, works on paper, and monotypes, the exhibition presents the full breadth of Benaroya's reimagining of women's bodies as a form where femininity and masculinity coexist, intertwine and transform one another. By referencing both art historical motifs and drawing upon contemporary culture-from music to comics to movies-Benaroya situates her subjects within the ever-evolving discourse around how women are seen, understood and desired."
"Driven not only by her attention to the long history of representation of women, but also by an attempt to discover whether their bodies can be seen without being sexualized, Benaroya creates superhuman characters whose extreme physical proportions and exaggerated features complicate any normative idea of what femininity does or should look like. Though they flaunt bulging and rippled physiques, her otherwise hyper-masculine figures exhibit stereotypically feminine qualities as well, such as styled hair and painted lips, seductive poses and tender expressions."
Ana Benaroya's Eternal Flame presents paintings, works on paper, and monotypes that reconfigure women's bodies where femininity and masculinity coexist, intertwine, and transform each other. Benaroya draws on art historical motifs and contemporary culture—from music to comics to movies—to position her figures within shifting perceptions of how women are seen, understood, and desired. The work centers on whether women's bodies can be perceived without sexualization by creating superhuman characters with exaggerated proportions that disrupt normative femininity. Figures combine hyper-masculine physiques with styled hair, painted lips, seductive poses, and tender expressions, filtered through a lens of lesbian desire. Bold, graphic, color-saturated imagery borrows from illustration and comics alongside painting.
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