The woman-table on a bear hide is myself, spread between the desire to serve and the instinct to survive. In 2016, creating this work, I contemplated how a woman becomes a surface for others' needs, while remaining a wild being. The bear hide beneath her is not a hunter's trophy, but her own shed skin, a memory of the time when she was a free beast.
Bronze here is deliberately rough — I left traces of touches, scratches, unevenness. This is a body that remembers every use, every feast held on its surface. But look closer: the back arches not from weight, but in dance. This is not submission — this is an ancient ritual of transforming pain into power.
Within Divot's walls, where meat meets art, my "Woman-Table" finds new interpretation — here they understand what it means to be simultaneously dish and chef of one's destiny. For those ready to accept this work into their collection, let us meet and speak of the price of transformation.
*Svetlana K-Liée, 2016*