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Following an extreme twist and slight distortion, the spectator’s eyes are confronted with a headless female body. The fact that the arms reaching out to us are skeletonized, while the hands and body are not, makes the figure even more frightening while also locating it in the visual context of sex crime and horror. And indeed, horror is Chloe Piene’s artistic reference point, which is even more evident in her dark video works than in her drawings. She combines motifs of eroticism and death, which reference the art traditions of Symbolism and Expressionism. Drawing becomes, in Chloe Piene’s case, a meditative-ecstatic act, which the artist compares to a state of sexual ecstasy or heavy metal concerts. In a state of trance, the boundaries of the human imagination redefine themselves; bodies evolve into hybrid beings oscillating between sexual lust and a state of physical decay. Articulating these extremes and drawing contours on a white background, Chloe Piene shows humankind in almost fantastical dimensions.