Tu Peux Partir (You Can Leave),170 x 200 cm, oil on canvas
Tu Peux Partir (You Can Leave) oscillates between a promise and an injunction. The title echoes a personal conviction: that it is possible to let go of certain parts of the past, to release what holds us back in order to make space for a new self. It speaks to a process of transformation, of rebuilding.
Yet these same words carry another reality. “You can leave” is sometimes directed at women living under coercion or control, as though freedom were merely a matter of individual choice, rather than something shaped by social, psychological, and material conditions. As though leaving were always possible. The painting inhabits this contradiction: between the desire for liberation and the structures of oppression that restrict it.
The work holds these meanings together within a single image, where women's bodies appear both as sites of persistent constraint and as spaces for the possibility of emancipation.
