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Hera’s story is not simply a story of jealousy.
In Greek mythology, Hera initially resists Zeus’s advances. Through deception and manipulation, Zeus eventually takes her as his wife. Yet their union does not bring an end to his pursuit of other women. Hera, in turn, directs her anger toward Zeus’s lovers and children, becoming a figure who both suffers under patriarchal power and reproduces its violence.
Bust of Hera explores this transformation: from the woman who refuses, to the wife who is betrayed, and ultimately to the figure who inflicts suffering on others.
The work asks where victimhood ends and complicity begins. Can a person who has experienced violence become part of the same system that wounded her?
Through fragmentation, I approach Hera not as a fixed mythological archetype, but as a complex figure shaped by power, betrayal, memory and inherited violence.
Hera is not only the victim of the myth. She also becomes one of its agents.