Pieta Di Se?, 2025, oil paint with mixed materials, 48 x 36 in. / 121.92 x 91.44 cm.

Pieta Di Se?, Barbara Cherry, 2025, oil paint with mixed materials, 48 x 36 in. / 121.92 x 91.44 cm.

‘Pietà di sé?’ (piety of self?) began as my self-portrait. As a chronic pain patient, I wanted to mock the feminine stereotype of wanting pity; so I referenced a religious art pose artists created for a moment of pity called the ‘pieta’.