For Douces Cruautés, Emrich created a number of new works. The Strategic Game illustrates a seemingly calm woman, pushing a P’tits Voiliers sailing boat in the Luxembourg Park; by taking a closer look at the marquetry, the viewer is able to discover a book by Gregory Salles1, effortlessly emerging out of her pocket. The Pat Down Series engages with security checks that are intimidating and fierce, a constructed necessity in times of uncertainty. The works feature iconic women that protrude femininity hence softness, but what is highlighted here is not only the representational strength of something delicate, but also the concept of powerful vulnerable, nonetheless. In the multi-layered tainted plexiglass, one comes across traces of finger prints caressing their contouring lines. 

Conversely in Hugging Raincoats two bodies are wrapped in rain-ponchos, standing close to each other. One can guess from the image and from the camera-angle, that they are in a public space where the ponchos provide them some protection and security. The exhibition creates a hollowed-out space for the viewer to inhabit. The Gossip Chair No.3 resembles an actual space for the viewer to inhabit and simultaneously a space for imaginative projection. 

When visualizing the notion of the body, the question of control and power is undoubtedly the main concern. These concerns are well portrayed in Phallocentric Keychain where a female hand is shown holding a keychain with a few miniatures of iconic buildings, the Eiffel, the Chrysler, the Pisa, most likely picked-up from an airport souvenir shop. In this image, they are firmly under female control, hung, dangling, and made into miniatures. 

This exhibition embodies the equilibrium of ethereal beauty and strong forceful energy, both found in the physical aspect of the pieces, not only through the materials, but also within the illustrations and stories created in the viewer’s imagination. The duality of powerful and softness resides permanently in the pieces as the illustrations are basically set in stone.