Vulvanerable 

Tinker Shiray Vulvnerable consists of vulnerabilities and the vulva – the female genitalia. A vision for an age beyond our phallic reality – the age of the vagina. In a series of drawings and paintings on paper, on canvas, on pieces of drywall (from Barcelona, Israel and New York City), as well as in diaries and notebooks, Tinker exhibits in Vulvnerable drawn works as well as mirror-writings and illustrations she has been making for years. One of the techniques she has developed for herself is drawing by looking at an adobe wall in her house. Like a mix of Plato’s allegory of the cave and the Lascaux cave drawings, Tinker reads the wall as both a surface and a reflection. This Pareidolia – the ability to see face everywhere – comes alive in many of Tinker’s drawings; every house looks like a figure, every circle – a face, every line – a creature. The animation of the world, making everything alive, human, child-like, is one of the features of Vulvberable.