Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Chloe Franchi

The Slope

Continuing the exploration of bodily crevices, “The Slope” shifts into a more compressed and uneasy space where comfort can bring tension. The curve of the spine, often idealized and sexualized within the female form, becomes central as a site of exposure. The figure is hunched, creating a narrow passage that invites the rabbits to move through rather than to rest, almost acting as an escape route. This posture resists openness as ease, instead framing the body as something that must fold in on itself to accommodate.The inclusion of the tailbone left “rabbit-less” interrupts any seamless eroticization of the form. By grounding the body in its more animal, structural reality, the work resists a purely sexual reading, complicating the comparison between woman and prey.