Eve’s Response offers is my adaption of Michelangelo’s iconic Creation of Adam and represents my reflection about religion and its relationship with women.
While the original image is of christian origin, I interpret the concept of religion more generally to include all major religions. For they all are similar in their treatment of women.
Above Eve, the heavenly cloud looms—not as sanctuary, but as spectacle. The male god, not confronted with a male Adam, reaches out with a very different intent. Power resides in the gesture, yet so does presumption. What else should a woman expect?
Accompanying him in the divine cloud are the usual Putti, which cannot be missed where innocence needs to be offered up in a religious context.
Also in the cloud you may recognize some of the familiar autocrats of the comtemporary political spectrum (Putin, Trump, Khamenei, Xiping, Taliban). They represent systems past and present, and the ways mighty men have instrumentalised religion to spread their absurd ideas and legitimise their power. An unholy alliance between religion and power … centuries old.
Eve’s presence isn’t a demand for redemption—it’s a reckoning. She does not look for answers from above; she seems to know what’s been offered before.
The hand of salvation, as history has shown, has not always lifted. It has weighed down, assigned blame, dictated roles. Eve’s Response is a moment suspended between myth and memory—a chance to say no, quietly but clearly.