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A woman in a blue dress with fish and waves on a black ground

Painting

Blue dress

2020

€800

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Reserved with a 20% deposit; the work stays in the room, marked, until 1 October.

The image of the blue dress first appeared in the artist's paintings as a reflection of a garment that had accompanied her for many years. Gradually it moved from one painting to another, becoming an image of lived experience — accumulated emotions, memories, identity. The dress becomes a second skin: a form through which a person recognises themselves, but which at some point they must outgrow.

Later this motif continued in a video work where the artist burns the real dress, turning the act of letting go into a ritual of liberation — as if shedding a second skin and leaving behind an earlier version of herself.

How it is made

Painted in 2020; this is the version the artist remade in 2025.

Materials
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
90 × 70 cm
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