THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL AWARD WINNER
fragments of deterioration.
Betty’s work explores echoes of human presence, navigating the blurred boundaries between life and death. Her creations, influenced by ritualistic and macabre inspirations, feel like personal offerings, through various mediums: drawing, painting, sculpture, and installations, building a visual language rooted in existential reflection, driven by a relentless search for meaning amid darkness.
Her paintings explore the convergence of form, color, and the human body, stripped of conventional associations, creating work that moves beyond explorations of identity or sensuality. The human body becomes a landscape, monstrous and unrecognizable, reduced to abstract shapes. Muted tones of cream, brown, and grey evoke a sense of stillness and decay, infusing the canvas with quiet deathliness.
Betty’s work resists classification, rejecting feminist interpretations and commentary on gender. Faces dissolve, heads bald, and any lingering sense of individuality or identity is erased. These figures, distant from the human, invite viewers to confront form and abstraction in unsettling, dehumanised ways.
