The precision of
her drawings of scalpel and stethoscope, watercolors assembled in a grid in the show, reflect her family background (her father was a veterinarian) and her own medical history: the long, arduous recovery from serious blood illness.
Not exact matches
If these images
draw on the off - kilter glamour
of Torbjørn Rødland and Wolfgang Tillmans, Ms. Westra also takes a feminist
scalpel to earlier art and literature that equated young women with budding flowers and ripe fruit.
Small objects such as hair accessories, earrings,
drawing instruments or
scalpel blades are defamiliarised through a process
of enlargement.