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For her first solo exhibition in Paris titled Watering False Flowers, American artist Erin M. Riley invites us into her intimate and personal life.

Through a series of self-portraits and contemporary still lifes, the artist explores themes such as sexuality, violence, the objectification of the female body, as well as the inherent traumas of the female condition, but also hope and healing. The use of wool as the main medium in Erin M. Riley’s practice gives her work a unique aesthetic and symbolic depth. Each thread, carefully dyed and woven by hand, recreates the pixelated and grainy …