The Almighty Feminine
Galerie Virginie Louvet
Paris, 2022
In The Almighty Feminine, Stefania Tejada explores femininity as a profound revelation, intricately weaving together myth, lineage, and elemental symbolism. Her portraits transcend mere representation, embodying women as vessels of raw power and subtle authority, sustained by vibrant hues and symbolic motifs such as serpents, moons, and flora. Each figure is rendered with a solemn dignity, their gaze charged with an enigmatic intensity, silently communicating the resilient spirit that underlies female experience.
Names like Raya, Akima, and María resonate throughout the exhibition like ritualistic incantations, anchoring the narrative within a personal mythology intertwined with historical memory. These women inhabit spaces defined by a careful tension of color and emotion, poised delicately between restraint and release. Tejada's canvases are immersive environments where femininity emerges as both undeniable truth and profound mystery, resonating deeply with ancestral rhythms and intuitive knowledge. Encountering these works means entering a realm where emotional depth and visual precision merge seamlessly, guided by the artist’s meticulous vision.
Through her practice, Tejada consciously blurs gender distinctions, expands perceived realities, and challenges entrenched hierarchies, evoking the poetic vitality inherent in life itself. Drawing inspiration from the archetype of the wild woman articulated by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, her paintings offer a therapeutic re-engagement with an intuitive feminine strength rooted firmly in nature, lunar cycles, and historical symbolism. By dismantling traditional roles and societal expectations, Tejada’s work fosters collective healing, celebrating empathy, sisterhood, and the
transformative potential within feminine identity.
Names like Raya, Akima, and María resonate throughout the exhibition like ritualistic incantations, anchoring the narrative within a personal mythology intertwined with historical memory. These women inhabit spaces defined by a careful tension of color and emotion, poised delicately between restraint and release. Tejada's canvases are immersive environments where femininity emerges as both undeniable truth and profound mystery, resonating deeply with ancestral rhythms and intuitive knowledge. Encountering these works means entering a realm where emotional depth and visual precision merge seamlessly, guided by the artist’s meticulous vision.
Through her practice, Tejada consciously blurs gender distinctions, expands perceived realities, and challenges entrenched hierarchies, evoking the poetic vitality inherent in life itself. Drawing inspiration from the archetype of the wild woman articulated by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, her paintings offer a therapeutic re-engagement with an intuitive feminine strength rooted firmly in nature, lunar cycles, and historical symbolism. By dismantling traditional roles and societal expectations, Tejada’s work fosters collective healing, celebrating empathy, sisterhood, and the
transformative potential within feminine identity.
I’ve Been Too Many Women
164 x 114 cm
Oil on linen
Work donated to the MOWAA Museum and auctioned
by Christie’s (2023).
164 x 114 cm
Oil on linen
Work donated to the MOWAA Museum and auctioned
by Christie’s (2023).
A Familiar Sentiment
100 x 100 cm
Oil on linen
100 x 100 cm
Oil on linen
Good Girl
100 x 80 cm
Oil on linen
100 x 80 cm
Oil on linen
God’s Dream
162 x 130 cm
Oil on linen
162 x 130 cm
Oil on linen
Monumental
162 x 130 cm
Oil on linen
FAMM Museum, Mougins. France
162 x 130 cm
Oil on linen
FAMM Museum, Mougins. France
Manifesto of an Amazon
150 x 150 cm
Oil on linen
150 x 150 cm
Oil on linen
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