Made in 2025, this oil painting considers what it might be like to be pregnant, with empathy, curiosity, and a little ambivalence. The figure at the top quadrant is a self-portrait of the artist. At the lower part of the composition is a portrait of a close friend of the artist. Revealed in her stomach is a baby growing within, both a wondrous sight and her vertebra reminder of mortality. The warm red colour recalls fertility. As is often the case with Cecilia Granara's compositions, the painting could be flipped vertically and horizontally and still generate meaning, as if it is a tarot card.

Cecilia Granara (born 1991, Jeddah) Cecilia Granara lives and works between Paris and Mexico City. She studied at Central Saint Martins, ENSBA Paris, Hunter College (MFA exchange), and received her MFA from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020. Granara’s paintings draw on mysticism, poetry, and personal history to explore longing, transformation, and spiritual renewal. She has presented solo and duo exhibitions at Cassina Projects in Milan, CAC Passerelle in Brittany, Exo Exo in Paris, and Sapling Gallery in London. Granara participated in institutional group shows at Musée D'Orsay (FR), Ford Foundation Gallery (U.S.A.) , FRAC Corsica (FR), Fondation Pernod Ricard (FR), Triennale Milano (IT), Château La Coste (FR), LAAC Musée de Dunkerque (FR), Centre D'Art Contemporain Passerelle (FR), Centre d'Art Parc Saint Léger (FR), Musée Cérès Franco (FR), Contemporary Art Center of Armenia, Zeyrek Cynili Hammam Museum (Turkey), MAXXI, Rome (IT) and ps120 Berlin (Germany). Granara was a finalist of the Antoine Marin Prize in 2019, the Cairo Prize (Italy) in 2021, the Club GAMEC Prize (Italy) in 2024, and the MAC Lissone Prize (Italy) in 2025.