Aurora loving 2023- 

My works depict female stories through myths and folk beliefs. I mix elements like goddesses, hybrids, creatures, and modern women's self-representation. Despite structural differences, I find properties or behaviors like micro stories that their parts do not have their strength or larger meaning, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.

I collect folktales, folk beliefs, and local myths and traditions. Myths have always played a fundamental role in society, and some traditional groups consider myths to be true accounts of their remote past. I paint a new copy of an existing image, which I allow to change in a process as I add new layers, creating a hybrid of time, characters, and places, which I can relate to. My work is, on the one hand, characterized by an idiosyncratic interpenetration of realism and fantasy, a worldly mind, rationality, and clarity of observation, and on the other hand by folly, outlandishness, and fallacy.

Folklore can be perceived as helping to create meaning and coherence in life and providing hope and strength. Drawing on the heritage of ancient folklore and magic in figurative painting, I use old stories to create new visual lexicons.

My work combines cosmological thinking, complex mythologies, and spiritual vocabularies with my own imagined worlds. I synthesise them into stories that are both futuristic and archaic. By incorporating cultural or historical features in my stories, I use the ordinary to depict the epic, the universal, and the transient, in a quest for worlds beyond my own.

In my current project (2023- ongoing), my work critiques understandings of nature, gender, and sexuality that attempt to objectify and naturalize women. These norms are justified through evolutionary narratives exclusively permitting the male gaze. Everything that does not fit this norm is considered provocative, “erotic”, or promiscuous. These norms have proven detrimental to women. Women have been and still are discriminated against in today's life due to unrealistic beauty standards, age, deeply ingrained beliefs, and societal values about women's sexuality, violating their sexual and reproductive health and rights. My work explores female perspective, sexual expression, and the objectification of women, bodily autonomy, themes of pleasure, love, and desire in the context of female sexuality and myths.