24/06/2026
Sleeping Beauty Incarcerated
A female figure sleeps in a space suspended between dream and confinement. Her body appears surrendered to rest, yet the tranquility is only superficial. Surrounding her, delicate yet oppressive structures—threads, symbolic bars, architectural fragments, or entangled organic forms—create a subtle prison, one built not through force, but through the silent accumulation of expectations, conventions, and fears.
The painting reimagines the myth of Sleeping Beauty, shifting the focus from external rescue to a state of inner suspension. Sleep becomes a metaphor for withdrawn consciousness and unrealized potential, while incarceration is presented not as a physical condition but as a psychological and existential one. The beauty of the figure coexists with her vulnerability, suggesting that what appears to be protection can become limitation, and what seems like rest may conceal an inability to act.
Through the tension between delicacy and restraint, dream and reality, the work invites viewers to reflect on their own invisible forms of confinement and on the moment when awakening becomes an act of liberation.