Roberta Rech’s work unravels the tension between body and observer through the figure of the androgynous form—a vessel of strangeness, rupture, and contradiction. Influenced by Lacanian psychoanalysis, she places these bodies at the center of her compositions, confronting the viewer with a protagonist that disturbs the normative and ignites the uncanny. Set in surreal, socially coded environments, her paintings create a visual dissonance where visible organs, brains, and gestures become signals of interior chaos.

Her obscurity lies not just in distortion, but in ambiguity. Every object, every pose, is charged with potential meaning—yet none are fixed. Interpretation remains in the hands of the observer, filtered through their own emotional topography. Rech doesn’t offer clarity; she invites discomfort, awe, and introspection. Her paintings do not speak directly—they echo, they haunt, they feel.