Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Chloe Franchi

Tummy Ache

Tummy Ache lingers in this space of unease, not defined by movement but sensation by the quiet tension of inhabiting a body and noticing the shapes it naturally forms. Returning to familiar associations of femininity and reproduction, the work shifts toward something more internal and complex, rooted beneath language and felt upon the surfaceThe navel becomes a point of focus as an uncanny form, echoing and merging the curve of a rabbit’s ear. suggesting connection without reliance on stereotype, allowing the body and the animal to meet in a shared vocabulary of shape and feeling.

“Have you ever felt a rabbit moving through your stomach in circles? If its presence is acknowledged, if its nervous rhythm is understood, something begins to settle into recognition.”