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From an initial focus on self-exposure, Fides Becker extends her range of topics to seduction, sex, violence, obsession with beauty, and compulsive consumption. In her paintings she uses visual ele­ments like dolls, toys, furniture, as well as female body-parts. In the seven deadly sins a new series of black paintings, Becker re­flects on the state of virtues and its values in the present times and ponders their relevance for contemporary society. Becker refers to the portrayal of the seven deadly sins by engaging in a dialogue with the history of painting and translates them into the …