Indira Cesarine "Eve's Turmoil" Limited Edition

Indira Cesarine "Eve's Turmoil" 2019

Photography, Archival Ink on Metallic Paper, Matted and Framed
Dimensions:
16 x 12in (Limited Edition of 6) Framed 21 x 17in, 
16 x 20in (Limited Edition of 6) Framed 20 x 28in
Signed on verso, includes certificate of authenticity.
Also available unframed, image printed with 2 inch white border

Indira Cesarine is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, video, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Her practice explores feminist narratives, identity, power, and autobiographical themes, informed by her Latinx heritage and women’s history. Blending traditional and new media, Cesarine examines contemporary culture through work that is both intimate and politically resonant.

A graduate of Columbia University with a triple major in Art History, French, and Women’s Studies, she has additionally studied at Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts (SVA), The New York Film Academy, The New York Academy of Art, as well as Brooklyn Glass and Urban Glass. Cesarine began exhibiting at a young age, presenting her first solo exhibition at sixteen at the Paul Mellon Art Center, and has since shown her work internationally at museums, galleries, and art fairs.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hudson Valley MOCA, Mattatuck Museum, Albany Institute of History & Art, The Watermill Center, Annmarie Sculpture Garden in partnership with the Smithsonian, Agnes Varis Art Center, CICA Museum, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. She has also exhibited her artwork at Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE Art Show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, the French Embassy Cultural Center with American Friends of The Louvre, Smack Mellon, A.I.R. Gallery, Canvas 3.0 at the World Trade Center, and the Every Woman Biennial (2022, 2024, 2026). She has participated in artist residencies, including Silver Art Projects (2021), Norwood Club (2020), and her ongoing residency at The Parlor NYC since 2020.

Cesarine’s work has been included in prominent benefit auctions such as “Take Home a Nude” at Phillips and Sotheby’s New York, ARTWALK NY supporting the Coalition for the Homeless, and the Gabrielle’s Angels Gala. Her public art projects include the “FUTURE VISION” billboard series presented by Save Art Space; “The Egg of Light,” exhibited at Rockefeller Center as part of the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt; and representing New York State for “HER FLAG,” a nationwide initiative commemorating the centennial of the 19th Amendment, exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Clinton Memorial Library.

Her exhibitions and artwork have been featured in leading international publications, including The New York Times, Vogue, Forbes, Newsweek, W Magazine, Dazed, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Artist Statement

“Empowering feminist themes are a point of departure for my multidisciplinary practice. My work begins in a deeply personal place and expands outward into collective experience. Through my practice, I seek to reclaim visual space historically defined by patriarchal frameworks, constructing narratives rooted in agency rather than objectification.

Drawing from art history, mythology, and philosophy, my work weaves historical reference with contemporary urgency. My Latinx heritage informs my engagement with cultural memory and layered identity, reflecting the intersection of personal experience and collective struggle.

Working across neon, photography, sculpture, painting, and installation, I allow concept to determine form. I am drawn to the tension between fragility and strength—glass neon that feels delicate yet charged with urgency, and materials that embody both vulnerability and resistance. Through light as both material and metaphor, I explore visibility, power, and perception.

My work challenges systems of power and serves as a catalyst for social change. Themes of gender equality, bodily autonomy, and democracy recur throughout my practice, creating work that is both intimate and political while reclaiming space for historically marginalized voices.” - Indira Cesarine

The “EDEN” series is inspired by the story of the Garden of Eden, and the first woman according to the Bible, Eve. The artwork of the series premiered in a special project titled, “EDEN” at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in March, 2019 at The UN Plaza in New York City, presented by Indira Cesarine. “I was inspired to create an exhibition that investigates the history, symbolism, and cultural impact of the Garden of Eden from a feminist perspective. For the exhibition at SPRING/BREAK Art Show I created a garden, with grass, trees, and flowers, ripe with conceptual works that explore the myth of Eden, the roles of Adam and Eve, and the concept of original sin.” For the exhibition Cesarine created several series in a number of mediums, including glass, steel and 3-D printed sculptures, paintings, intaglio etchings, photogravures, as well her photographic series “EVE’S STORY”.

“I photographed this series upstate, in an untouched natural environment, an Eden on earth. The beauty of the Garden of Eden has been romanticized throughout the canon of art history. I felt it was time to explore the story of Eve, in an intimate way as a human with real experiences. Through this series, I wanted to express the emotions Eve may have felt being the only woman in the garden - moments of contemplation, pain, wonder, peace, and sorrow - along with the simplicity of just being a woman in her own skin, addressing her solitude in nature. My initial intention with these images was to use them as references for paintings, but as the series progressed, I realized that the photographs had their own integrity, and elaborated on the concept of Eve as being a real woman with more depth and sincerity.” - Indira Cesarine

Read more about her artwork and exhibitions on our website.