Emmarosa Verdoner Liebgen (b.1997)
My practice unfolds around sorrow, transformation, and the fragile resilience that emerges in the passage between loss and becoming. I create dreamlike scenes where existences take many forms: bodies might grow mermaid tails, sink into the earth, or merge with flowers carrying human faces. These figures are both vulnerable and protective, drawn from personal experiences of grief while opening towards wider narratives of care, metamorphosis, and survival.
Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag theory of fiction, I understand painting not as a heroic climax, but as a vessel – a container for fragments, gestures, and stories that might otherwise be forgotten. My work hold these fragments together, gathering traces of the body in brushstrokes, in glass castings, and in details that carry a tactile intimacy.
Moving between the earthly and the dreamlike, my work invite viewers into spaces where sorrow and tenderness coexist, and where images become a way of carrying, collecting, and remembering.
Photo: Solenne Hyllemose