Essex Flowers presents of the soft parts, Juvana Soliven’s New York debut, confronting systems that have controlled and violated women’s bodies. Using a pixelated censor motif, she examines bodily autonomy, gender, labor, and survival. Through meticulous craft, Soliven transforms symbols of censorship into hybrid forms—part body, tool, and weapon—questioning how control, protection, and erasure intertwine in patriarchal structures.
