Uta’s latest series of paintings – Women Crucified – was created as a visual narrative of the suffering inflicted on women.

The US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision restricted access to safe and legal abortion, depriving women of their reproductive autonomy. The persistence of femicide and deaths related to childbirth around the globe is reflected in numbers. Every day, 137 women are killed by intimate partners or family members; 712 women die every day from pregnancy or childbirth. Growing up as a Catholic, she saw many images of the cross as a symbol of suffering. She asks: “Will men, families, religious leaders, society, ever stop controlling women and their bodies, enslaving them, abusing them, raping them, forcing them to give birth, risking their lives and health. The tyranny of reproductive and sexual control over women is the most persistent violation of human dignity.” Inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch (1440-1515), the only artist who painted the crucifixion of a woman, St. Wilgisfortis, who’s father demanded that she be crucified for her Christian Faith and her refusal to marry.