Lori Moretti – Biopsy Blues

Description

Artist Statement

This work examines the female body as both a physical presence and a psychological space shaped by scrutiny.
I am interested in the expectations placed on women’s bodies-by society, by beauty culture, and by the internalized standards women often turn on themselves. Using a semi-abstract figurative approach, I distort form, compress space, and use charged color to resist polished or idealized representations of the body. The figures
are meant to occupy an uneasy space between vulnerability and control. They are not portraits, but embodiments of states of being shaped by self-awareness, judgment, and endurance.