Three women meet one morning on a bed to comb their hair.

Twenty studies attempt to capture what a woman thinks when she looks at herself in the mirror: how she inwardly converses with love and death, with desire and loss, with her body and her image.

The figures of Medea, Phaedra, and Antigone—archetypal heroines of ancient tragedy—appear here stripped of stage and narrative, as shadows and corporeal imprints in color. Medea carries passion and rage, Phaedra the guilt of forbidden desire, Antigone an uncompromising devotion to a moral law beyond life itself.

The bodily postures—turning the back to the gaze, exposing the bare torso, standing on a pedestal almost like a statue—transform these heroines into inner landscapes. The painting, marked by gestural intensity, emphasizes the fragile threshold between presence and absence, desire and exhaustion.

The series highlights how these tragic figures survive in collective memory not as stories of the past but as questions of the present: how a woman lives and dies, how she loves, resists, and transforms.