Cross My Heart (2024) by Maral Taskirici brings together religious imagery and the decorative traditions of painted ceramics. Set within a dark wooden cross, white glazed tiles depict Eve in delicate lilac tones, reaching among fruit-bearing branches as birds circle around her. The cross is suspended from a wooden wall bracket, giving the work a presence that extends beyond the traditional format of a framed image.

Presented as part of She-Devil at Innenkreis, the work revisits one of the most enduring female figures in Christian mythology. Eve has long been associated with temptation, disobedience and humanity's fall from grace, her story frequently used to frame female curiosity and desire as dangerous. Within the exhibition's exploration of female agency, Eve becomes a figure through whom ideas of transgression and the right to make one's own choices can be reconsidered.