A quiet dinner Painting

born-1979
Israeli
artist

My works are ink drawings on canvas of women dressed in cat suits and wearing gas masks. They are drawn by intensive thin lines made by a quill and splatters of linen oil.

The characters live in a very private closed world. The suits come from the sadomasochistic asphyxiation world. The tubs lead air and nourishments in and out of the body in a closed environment.

These women are "super feminists", they don't need the outside world. But inevitably, they annihilate themselves. In the end they will have nothing to sustain them. Even in dual systems like the paintings "a quiet dinner" and "double respiration" where all feces are spattered all over the world (the canvas).

My images come from the gothic subculture which I used to belong to that crosses with the BDSM(bondage, domination, sadism, masochism) subculture especially in dress codes and fetishism towards vinyl, latex, corsets exc.

I take a lot from the writings of the Marquis de Sad, Pauline Reage erotic drawings and BDSM comic books which were/are drawn and written by men for men. I take them as my own and show independent female sexuality.

In addition for the fetish for latex and vinyl, the works deal with the two extremes of S&M. The women in the paintings want full control over themselves, being a dominatrix. But in this control over what they are, their femininity and the fact that they are not willing to giving up on anything, they become submissive. Enjoying the consuming they forced upon themselves.