Nicole David

Charmaine’s Soap Bubbles (After Chardin)

Painting

2025

Oil on linen

48 x 60 inches

Inspired by Jean Simeon Chardin's 1733 painting "Soap Bubbles", Charmaine is an imagined figure who blows bubbles as an act of releasing harmful historical narratives connected to her exterior form. She rejects the psychological violence of white, colonial and patriarchal structures by becoming one with the strange landscape of desire.

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Charmaine’s Soap Bubbles (After Chardin)

2025, Grad Ex

OCAD University, Toronto, ON

Work by

Nicole David

Drawing & Painting

“My work is about desire. The strange and murky landscape of desire. The loose threads of historical, cultural, social, political and emotional experiences that become entangled with the white,...” [More]