ANGELA MERKEL
The first woman to rule Germany – and one of the few women of power who was rarely seen as a woman.
Was she unfeminine – or simply free from the roles assigned to femininity?
Strength can be quiet. So can beauty.
In Adam’s Apple, I show her differently: as a female figure, provocative and exaggerated – a mirror of our own ideas of power and womanhood.
She stands for a new kind of authority: rational, unadorned, and deeply human.
