Havana (Cuba), 2021

Her name has been whispered and feared since the dawn of writing, and it resonates as an echo of rebellion and feminine autonomy. The one who did not obey. The one who was turned into a shadow, into a warning, into the forbidden. Demon, witch, vampire. In Lilith, Glez strips the myth of its condemnation and transforms it into a reclaiming act. With this work, the artist won the ENAIRE Young Photography Award in 2021, recognizing her ability to turn the image into an act of resistance.

For centuries, Lilith has embodied the punishment for challenging norms. Her story mirrors all the bodies that were silenced, of all the voices that refused to bow. Glez recovers and multiplies her in this photographic series, transforming her into a new language: images where demonization gives way to autonomy.

Here, women do not ask for permission; they occupy space. Women of all ages, origins, and non-binary individuals look ahead, claiming the right to exist without guilt. Femininity sheds fear and reaffirms itself in diversity. Photography becomes rewriting, the medium through which what was condemned to myth is made visible.

Through the use of light and composition, Glez places each body in its own territory, without hierarchies or restrictions. The photograph does not illustrate a past story; it rewrites it in the present tense. Each frame is an affirmation: femininity is not submission. It is resistance.

Lilith is no longer the shadow that lurks in the night; she is the light that breaks the silence. She is no warning but heritage. In each look and gesture of these women, the myth is reconstructed from strength and freedom. Because Lilith was never the demon, she was the first to say “no.”

María Pérez Marín