The paintings of Francien Krieg are surprising and contemporary images of the human body. Sometimes it is dramatic and then it is funny, but what connects al of these images is the huge fascination this artist has for the human body.

Already this obsession showed in her early academic period, were she made sculptures of flesh, and skins .She wanted to show with these installations  the absurdity of the human body. She experiences her own body like a bizarre object which keeps surprising and frustrating her, she wanted to make the viewer also more aware of their body.

From this thought she started to paint the body from 1998 till now.

She showed this absurdity by showing the body from all different angles which gave a strange perspective effect.

The last years she paints women who are not part of the controlling beauty image: fat ladies, old wrinkled ladies with hanging breasts, its beauty lays in the fact that it is pure and real, these images often make people feel uncomfortable because it is something most people don’t want to see. Confronting and inevitability that is what Krieg’s work is about.