Jill Winnie's large-scale oil paintings are saturated with images that burst with toxic positivity. The works depict a pictorial ideal of health, wellness, and spirituality that is distorted by repetition, blurring, and overlapping. This idealized version of a fulfilled life is taken apart and exposed in all its superficiality and unattainability. Self-optimization becomes a constant, unattainable goal and the concept of well-being becomes a mere consumer product, a status symbol.
Commercial products that promise the consumer a sense of well-being are brought to the fore, while the human body is reduced to empty poses and superficial objects.
The results of this preoccupation with consumerism and the constant quest for self-optimization, are vivid, collage-like fusions of products, food, and human body parts. The sensuality of the scenes imitates the longing for a successful lifestyle that can never be achieved but will always be promoted.