In this new series, Rebecca Sharp explores how the forces of desire and love, destruction and death manifest and reveal themselves in the human body.

The paintings investigate the battle – subtle and explicit – between the drives of Eros and Thanatos. The tension between the control of bodies and voices, between the dominance of life and the wild magnetism of freedom and spontaneous creation.

Through symbols such as the snake with roots, the Southern Cross and broken Portuguese swords, Rebecca expresses a body dynamic – intimate and external.

In her visual narrative, there is always an inclination towards the force of Eros.