Prototype: “contemporary confusion”
Photographic and pictorial triptych
Mixed media: photography, black paint, flowers, wood
Artist: Léonie Stolberg
When opening this triptych, one question springs to mind:
Who are we when we are being watched?
This triptych opens like a confession, split in two like a revelation of inner intimacy.
In the center, a frontal, direct photograph: a gaze toward us, naked, unmasked, the punished, whose pubis?
Everyone's, without identification. It is universal.
Around it, the shutters unfold like flapping wings or sacred doors, revealing the eternal paradox that shapes the place of women in our world, that of the mother and that of the whore.
On the left panel, motherhood stands tall, symbolizing welcome, gentleness, and transmission, but also social weight and expectations.
On the right panel, sexuality—free, unapologetic, unsettling, and unvarnished—explores the power of desire and the flesh.
In the center, a primitive need: the origin of the world.
No judgment, no answer.
Behind, on the back of the triptych, almost hidden, is a contrasting image: a young girl seen from behind, turning away.
An escape?
Or liberation?
Another path, far from the shackles?
She is neither muse nor model, just a silhouette walking away, outside the frame. Between the imposed roles and multiple identities that every woman can inhabit, reject, or reinvent.