Miriam Cahn’s career spans more than five decades, overturning painting as a medium, which from a traditional genre becomes a tool for an in-depth investigation of European and global history. In her pictorial worlds, the Swiss artist enhances the abolition of social norms and contrasts with the traditional representation of female and gender roles. From her early works, strongly influenced by feminism, to her later creations she focuses on the body and its incredible vulnerability. Over the last twenty years Cahn has developed her own iconography capable of exploiting the evocative potential of color to convey strong themes such as human conflict, war by alternating real scenarios to inner worlds.
