The Forbidden Moment explores the tension between visibility and self-protection in an age of constant exposure. The figure holds a Sacred Heart – not as a religious symbol, but as an emblem of inner integrity and quiet resistance. Calm and unreachable, it refuses legibility, turning withdrawal into an act of self-assertion.
The work questions power relations in the gaze: Who is seen, who remains hidden, what happens when intimacy becomes public? In a digitized world that demands transparency and efficiency, the painting offers resistance through opacity – a plea for complexity, silence, and inner space. The Forbidden Moment understands painting as deceleration and symbolic independence, shifting the focus toward an ethic of seeing that is attentive, uncertain, and deliberately unresolved.

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