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Dynamis (Ancient Greek: δύναμις) is a Greek philosophical concept meaning “power,” “potential,” or “ability,” and is central to the Aristotelian idea of potentiality and actuality. This is not the first work in which I have used this term. I am constantly accompanied by a sense of inexhaustible potential – something embodied in every cell of…

(Everything Changes, Nothing Perishes) The phrase comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses – a meditation on transformation as the fundamental law of existence. Nothing disappears; it merely changes form. Across history, power shifts, narratives are rewritten, reputations are reshaped. What once seemed fixed dissolves into something new. In this work, I reflect both on women’s stories and…

“Veritas Temporis Filia” – Truth, the Daughter of Time – was the personal motto of Mary Tudor, the controversial “Bloody Mary.” The phrase suggests that truth does not belong to the present moment; it unfolds slowly, in relation to what came before. After her early death, the throne passed to her half-sister, Elizabeth I. Ruling…

While preparing for this exhibition, I immersed myself in the histories of female rulers, including those of the Middle Ages. In the sixteenth century, several queens governed Europe at the same time – among them the legendary Catherine de’ Medici. Marked by a difficult childhood, Catherine emerged as a strategic and self-determined figure. Yet these…

“Femme forte” (French for “strong woman”) historically refers to a seventeenth-century artistic and literary trope in France depicting heroic women from history and scripture – Judith, Lucretia and others – as embodiments of moral fortitude, virtue and courage. While creating this exhibition, I searched for encouraging female figures in both distant history and our recent…

By 1565, two unmarried women – Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England – had already been ruling on the same island for years: Mary for four, Elizabeth for seven. The term prudente Gynecocratie appears in a sixteenth-century text by Pierre de Ronsard, who defended the peaceful and intelligent authority of ruling queens.…

The last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty was the one and only Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. The image of Cleopatra that has reached us is largely shaped by the propaganda of Octavian, who ruled Rome from 31 BCE to 14 CE. Threatened by her political alliance with Mark Antony – and unwilling to accept the…