HISteria by Amanda Fitzgerald

HISteria is not an exhibition—it’s a reckoning.
Steeped in satire, and clinical absurdity, this body of work lacerates the language of diagnosis, sanctity, and femininity. Each painting is a visual sermon against centuries of containment—religious, psychiatric, maternal—and together they form a sacred archive of resistance. Audiences arriving at HISteria will enter a space where no archetype remains untouched: the martyr is ablaze, the mother bites back, the prophet interrupts, and the diagnosed refuse the cure.
Text and image collide with feral precision: declarations of pain are tattooed on holy bodies, biblical iconography gets repurposed as visual sarcasm, and every supposedly “hysterical” trait—rage, ambition, sorrow, hunger—is honored as gospel.
Expect to laugh, to flinch, and to recognize...