Kinder, Küche, Kirche

Borrowing its title from the phrase “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” ("children, kitchen, church")—a slogan used under the German Empire to define a woman’s role in society—this digital portrait reclaims and reconfigures the archetype of womanhood. Portraying herself as a modern holy mother while expecting her first child, the artist inhabits and challenges the symbolic weight of maternal iconography. The work holds a quiet tension between reverence and resistance, reflecting on how cultural expectations around femininity, devotion, and domesticity continue to echo across time and place.