The Breath of Venus

"The Breath of Venus”

Acrylic on canvas, Paris, 2026

70 x 150cm ( 3 canvas triptych of 50 x 70cm )

My third piece, another Trinity piece, joins the other two, for our Parisian show: IN HER ROOM.

This piece is directly inspired by the following pieces:

Sandro Botticelli - “The Birth of Venus”, c. 1484–1486

József Rippl-Rónai - “Woman with a Birdcage”, 1892

In duality with my piece - “In Her Room”, 2026

In direct dialogue with “In Her Room”, this triptych expands the private cosmos introduced in that earlier work.

Where the bed once symbolized reflection, dream, eroticism, and the slow collapse of time, this new piece explores emergence and coming out. If “In Her Room” dwelt in the subconscious interior, this work guides the onlooker by the hand, to step through it.

Across the three panels, dualities unfold:

Interior and exterior,

confinement and liberation,

myth and memory.

The central figure may appear Venus-like, yet she is grounded in the psychological realism of a woman within her own constructed space - her teenage room. Curtains may part, seas may recede, cages may open - but nothing is resolved entirely. Instead, the triptych holds tension, the way a breath is held before speaking.

Together, the two works form a cycle: one rooted in dream and dissolution, the other in emergence and embodied presence. One contemplates the room as sanctuary and subconscious; the other reimagines it as birthplace and threshold. Between them lies a continuous meditation on femininity, solitude, mythology, and the quiet power of becoming, bursting out of the cage, of the closet.