Gaby Collins-Fernandez

"I used an image from Madonna del Parto by Piero Della Francesca which features a pregnant Mary Magdalen. The whole image stages an opening by touch. The background is opened by two angels and Mary Magdalene fingers these robes which feels like a surrogate for a labia. She ends up evoking pregnancy and the material pregnancy of Christ. I grew up with Christian Cuban grandparents so this religion is a part of my historical inheritance. That idea of the body as image and material and its connection to pregnancy and representation of women is interesting to me. In "Bad Witch" there is a hand in the foreground which comes from the Madonna del Parto." - Gaby Collins-Fernandez