The rebirth of eve
Madelon van Vredendaal
Wdka Willem De Kooning Academy
The Rebirth of Eve is a photographic exploration of an alternative creation story. Challenging the masculine and linear narrative of Adam and Eve, in which woman is presented as derived from man and humanity is placed above nature, I question the hierarchies this myth has helped naturalize. Drawing on biology, genetics, and evolutionary science, I developed a symbolic creation myth rooted in the biological reality of our origins, where the feminine becomes a fundamental force within cycles of creation, transience, and rebirth. Through encounters with midwives, scientists, philosophers, and non-human life, photography became a way to reconsider our origins, our place within the living world, and the possibility of another future.