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From Rachel Hayden’s serene faces embellished with butterflies and flowers, to Heather Benjamin’s combative and voluptuous deities, the two artists share a common attention to using symbolism as a vehicle for emancipation.

The omnipresence of both celestial movements and the vegetal life cycle in Hayden’s work project the theme of transformation and invite us to investigate our own emotional state through the lense of perpetual change. Celebrating life and not giving into the inertia of anxiety.

Benjamin’s images praise femininity under a raw light, channeling sexuality in scenes as baroque …