Themes

Her art explores the theme of human fragmentation, presented through emotionally and symbolically resonant images, distorted bodies, and faceless forms. These elements illustrate how the pressures of modern societies can disrupt inner harmony and fracture the individual spirit. In her work, she seeks to visually dissect the body and soul, which she perceives as a mirror of the “confused deformities” of contemporary existence. Doddo invites her audience into what she describes as a “bazaar of illicit, immoral, illegal dreams”, a realm of deeply personal, provocative, and complex emotions that stir self-reflection.

Women are at the center of much of her work. Her female figures, often faceless or physically constrained, carry what is expected of women, imposed silence, vulnerability and endurance, and also strength, sensuality and recovery. Her couples twist into one another until it is hard to tell where one body ends; the embrace can protect and confine at the same time.

Focus is only on certain fragments and not on the whole individual which is broken into pieces, divided between mind, imagination, sensation and increasingly sophisticated and difficult to understand concepts about its own purpose and existence.

Postmodern philosophies have demolished the corporality and consistency of its whole, turning it into a malleable and adjustable material. The style in which the artwork is conceived suggests that the urban environment is the place where the body and the being is deprived of its identity. In addition, in some of the paintings the body shapes are headless, faceless and, in the absence of appearance, they become fluid.

In other words, the body, like the soul, like reality are arbitrarily reinvented and resized. Therefore, this symbol of transfiguration can also be found in my artwork as a key element which indicates the transcendence, the eternity of the living being and its primordial unity. The distorted body tends towards it, but it is diminished, weakened by the action of confusing deformities. The body reduced only to an amorphous carnality or marked with fetishes is like a contorted creature, without an identity, that seeks its lost unity.