A homage to Ingres’s “The Grand Odalisque”

In this exhibition, I explore the reversal of the traditional female model into a male one. The central figure, a nude man reclining on a couch, mirrors the pose of the odalisque from Ingres’s The Grand Odalisque.
Through this work, I reflect on the dynamics of the male gaze and its objectification of the female body - while inverting the roles, as a female painter who observes and perhaps objectifies the man before her.