Venus Virgin Tomarz

Venus Virgin Tomarz is a constructed universe where identity is not fixed, but continuously becoming.

Drawing from the visual language of 1960s science fiction, the work reimagines space as a site of transformation, a place where the body, gender and self can be reshaped, performed and re-authored. What begins as kitsch and spectacle slowly reveals something more intimate: a personal mythology of transition, tension and self-invention.

At the centre of the work is Venus, not simply a character, but a force. She exists between worlds, navigating the polarity of Venus and Mars, softness and aggression, beauty and conflict. This duality is not resolved; it is held. The friction between these states becomes the narrative.

The images are meticulously fabricated using everyday materials, liquids, powders, objects, assembled into galaxies, terrains and atmospheres. These analogue constructions are intentionally visible beneath the illusion. The work does not try to hide its making; instead, it invites the viewer to look closer, to question what is real, and to recognise that all worlds, including our own, are built.

There is a kind of optimism running through the work, but it is not naïve. It asks: what does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to transform? And more importantly, can we accept each other in whatever form we arrive?

Venus Virgin Tomarz is not about escaping reality.
It is about remaking it.