ArtExpo, New York, 2014

In 2014, Beba returned to ArtExpo New York with a new body of work that expanded her visual vocabulary into a territory of intensified color and theatricality. At the heart of the presentation stood Alice, After the Fall, the first public showing of what would become one of the artist’s signature compositions.

Rendered in Beba’s unmistakable interplay of fine-line drawing and dense chromatic structures, Alice, After the Fallcaptures the moment after descent—an instant suspended between disorientation and awakening. The figure, elongated and patterned in interlocking geometries, becomes a vessel for transformation. Every stripe, spiral, and rhythmic curve echoes the narrative pulse of Lewis Carroll’s original wonderland, yet reimagined entirely through the artist’s internal logic of movement.

Surrounding the centerpiece, works such as Caterpillar, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, Mad Hatter, and The Queen of Hearts formed a complete constellation. Each character is distilled to its essential motion: the weight of a gesture, the switch of a limb, the tension of a posture. Beba’s line never illustrates—it animates. She builds bodies that vibrate, bend, and multiply, echoing both the absurdity and psychological depth of Carroll’s characters.

ArtExpo 2014 marked a pivotal moment in Beba’s trajectory. The reception of this series introduced her to a wider international audience, affirming the precision of her technique and the imaginative ambition behind her world-building. Alice, After the Fall became a touchstone work, signaling a shift toward larger, more complex compositions that merge narrative, abstraction, and performance within a single visual field.