A young woman with ivory skin, her hair still damp from a bath. A shimmering cloak of deep red frames her face and bare chest. Thoughtfully he woman glances right into emptiness – or into another world?

Automatically, one feels reminded of depictions of the Madonna and saints in Christian art. The deep red cape in Christian symbolism stands for love and passion, but also for blood and sacrifice, there are also wounds on the young woman’s forehead and below her collarbone completing this metaphor.

But there is also this sensuality, even the eroticism of the not completely covered body: the breast lying in tantalizing shadow, the full and somewhat rough-looking lips. Blessed or wicked? A zesty mixture that is well known in western art history.