In today’s world, our relationship with cross-cultural exchange, media, new technologies, and socio-political change has brought a greater emphasis on the significance of embodied experience. The body has taken on a transcendental meaning, and contemporary figurative painting seeks to represent this through different styles ranging from realism to abstraction and technologically informed practices.
These styles aim to tell the stories of diverse bodies and their connotations – encompassing the polarised, the ‘ideal’, the natural, the technological, the liminal, and more. By doing so, they help to situate these bodies within nuanced frameworks such as posthumanism, feminism, Otherness, and diasporic memory.
