She Keeps Them Warm With Her Skirt

In her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, titled She Keeps Them Warm With Her Skirt, AnnaMaria Pinaka (1983, Thessaloniki) brings together seemingly opposing iconic representations of womanhoods. Her new body of work stems from the figure of the ‘princess’ as a complex feminine icon and product of a white, imperial Europe, that has deeply impacted the Southern Balkans, while resurfacing raw and unruly examples of punk and grunge music subcultures. Through the exhibition and a gig-like performance, organised at and in collaboration with Het Salon, Pinaka explores and reshuffles layers of organized, with the aim to subvert patriarchal narratives that form women. In turn she proposes contradictory subjectivities, whose identities remain unresolved and resist articulation.