Dina Goldstein began her career 30 years ago as a photojournalist, evolving from documentary photography into an independent artist focusing on large-scale narrative tableaux. Her work is a social commentary, playing with cultural archetypes and iconography from the collective imagination. Leaning into pop surrealism, she stages compositions that expose the underbelly of modern life, challenging cultural influence and belief systems. Mistresspieces examines how the female form has historically been represented by male painters as symbols of beauty, fertility and allegory. Goldstein recontextualises such imagery within contemporary social environments marked by inequality, resilience and urban complexity.