In Hyper-Venus, Mona von Wittlage reinterprets Botticelli’s archetype of ideal beauty through the fragile, perishable medium of blood. Standing nude against an expanse of white, this Venus no longer floats into the world on a seashell, but confronts the viewer directly— at once vulnerable and unapologetically present.

Her posture recalls the Renaissance goddess, yet the softness of Botticelli’s vision is here replaced with the stark immediacy of living flesh. The body is neither myth nor abstraction but a reminder of transience, inscribed in a material that resists permanence.

Hyper-Venus is both homage and rupture: a goddess stripped of illusion, brought into the present where beauty is inseparable from fragility, mortality, and truth.