29/05/2026
Queen of Hearts
100 x 70 cm
oil on canvas
2025
“The work Queen of Hearts, which lends the exhibition its title, brings together in an amalgam of hand mirror and chalice with poison-green liquid not only container and reflection, but also Disney’s Snow White’s stepmother (Chaotic evil!) and Kim Kardashian (GOAT) in the form of overlapping, fragmented faces. The influencer and businesswoman Kim Kardashian has set new standards in beauty and fashion through skilful social media marketing and is considered a contemporary icon. Snow White’s stepmother personifies jealousy and malice. She hates her reflection; Kardashian sells hers. Both are part of a toxic mixture of beauty and power.
The mirror has long served in literature and art as an ambivalent symbol of identity-seeking and self-knowledge, but also of vanity and illusion. In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass it embodies a portal between reality and fiction. Through the interlocking of pictorial layers and motifs, Queen of Hearts deconstructs identities and reveals the complex relationship between inner and outer world, self-perception and the perception of others in the digital age.”
— Magdalena Mai (.g.da.mai ),exhibition text for Queen of Hearts
The exhibition continues through June 13th 🦩
See you at the gallery!