The Reclining Nude (2025)

The canvas is mounted on a supported wooden frame and sold ready to hang.
The painting is not framed. The edges of the artwork are painted.
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“The Reclining Nude” revisits one of the most enduring archetypes in Western art — the reclining figure — to question who is allowed to embody beauty, desire, and vulnerability.

For centuries, this pose has been synonymous with the idealized female body — passive, sensual, created to be seen. In this work, I reclaim that gesture through a queer lens, offering the male body as both subject and storyteller. His pose echoes the Venus of Urbino, The Rokeby Venus, and Olympia, yet subverts their gaze: the figure is neither objectified nor submissive. He simply exists — unapologetically at ease in his own tenderness.

Set against an abstract field of color and texture, the body merges with its surroundings, blurring the line between figure and space, intimacy and abstraction. This ambiguity transforms the familiar image of the “reclining nude” into something fluid, self-aware, and liberated from the conventions of gender and history.

“The Reclining Nude” is both homage and rebellion — a quiet act of defiance that turns a centuries-old symbol of beauty into a celebration of queer presence and power.