Damaris Athene’s practice draws on posthuman feminist theory to explore how digital technology shapes our understanding of the body, whilst challenging human-centred ways of thinking. Athene works across digital collage, installation, painting, photography and soft sculpture, making pieces – often painted with airbrushed gradients of colour – that exist between the real and unreal, organic and synthetic and digital and physical worlds. fruit-in-my body (2024) explores the entanglement of humans, animals, plants, fungi, the environment and technology, with a focus on rebirth and reproduction. The form takes inspiration from lotus seed pods – a resilient water-born plant which can lie dormant for over 1,000 years and still bloom, as well as digital images of mammary glands that make breast tissue appear symmetrical and flower-like. The colours of this installation reference soft femme culture, in a reclamation of so-called "girly" palettes.