Amethyst, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 137cm x 106cm
Descension, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 183cm x 259cm
Flower of Life, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 167cm x 152.4cm
Guardian, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 107cm x 91cm
Kawan Tapi Lawan (Frienemy), 2019, Oil on Canvas, 152.4cm x 152.4cm
Lillith, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 137cm x 106cm
Summer, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 152cm x 259cm
The Other Women, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 152cm x 121cm
Vaginal Spread, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 274.3cm x 183cm
Venus, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 122cm x 244cm
Lillith II, 2019, Watercolour on Paper, Glass Frame paint with Oil Colours, 107cm x 61cm
EVE
Solo Exhibition I
In the sensuous and contemplative world of Sofia Haron, the viewer is invited into an awakening, a realm where intimacy, femininity, and myth intertwine upon her canvases. Her female figures shimmer with quiet confidence and sultry grace, inhabiting dreamlike spaces that pulse with both restraint and freedom. Through EVE, her debut solo exhibition, Sofia foregrounds the female form as her central narrative, an exploration of selfhood, sensuality, and the emotional terrains that define womanhood.
Her fascination with women begins with herself, a woman awakening to her own senses, her softness, her defiance. Since the beginning of time, femininity has been conveniently typified as the “weaker sex.” Yet Sofia questions this inherited myth through her brush. Is there a Lilith behind every Eve that dances in the garden of Eden?
Drawing from the duality of ancient folklore, Sofia revisits the story of Lilith and Eve. Lilith, born of the same clay as Adam was cast as the disobedient one, proud, sensual, and unyielding to subservience. Eve, on the other hand, was formed from Adam’s rib, the emblem of obedience and trust. Between these two archetypes lies the eternal dialogue of womanhood: submission and rebellion, modesty and freedom, innocence and desire.
In her paintings, Sofia celebrates the delicate tension between these worlds. Her women adorned in soft fabrics, poised in ruffled grace radiate temptation and allure. They exist not as objects of gaze, but as beings in possession of their own gaze. Within their intimacy, they dance weightless, contemplative, caught between the archetype of Eve and the shadow of Lilith.
EVE is thus a visual on the evolving identity of women, both personal and collective. Sofia peels open the layers of the feminine psyche, revealing not the body as spectacle, but as metaphor, a vessel of history, transformation, and awakening. Through each brushstroke, she invites us to question, what does it truly mean to be a woman, and what remnants of Eve and Lilith do we each carry within?