The Poetics of Presence: The Art of Roxana Halls Born in 1974 in Plaistow, London, Roxana Halls has cultivated a practice that serves as a profound meditation on the human condition, specifically through the lens of identity and resistance. Her artistic journey is deeply rooted in the spirit of the feminist art movement, emerging from a period defined by the dismantling of patriarchal structures and the reclamation of female agency. Influenced by the pioneering works of artists such as Mary Beth Edelson and Joyce Kozloff, Halls’s oeuvre is an unwavering commitment to portraying women not mer…