La Fugitive, is a group exhibition featuring my work running 17 September-18 December 2022 at Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
The exhibition is curated by Ana Mendoza Aldana in collaboration with Claire Le Restif and features works by artists: Chantal Akerman, Mélissa Boucher, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cécile Bouffard, Anne Bourse, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Jean de Sagazan, Marcel Devillers, Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, GB Jones, Ana Jotta, Marie Laurencin, Autumn Ramsey, Lena Vandrey, Zoe Williams.
"La Fugitive is the title that Marcel Proust originally gave to the sixth volume of In Search of Lost Time . The exhibition proposes to give substance to the fictional character of Albertine through emblematic and unpublished works by modern and contemporary artists. It is constructed as a journey from the domestic space of the young woman to the real and fantasized environments which in the book hide from the gaze of the narrator.
The artistic practices presented in La Fugitive question a visual culture inherited from male gaze. They participate in highlighting the history of queer people and thus offer a polysemous reading of things and the world."
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Installation views of 'La Fugitive', Showing my work as follows: 'Piss in Boots (Living Currency Parlour set), 2022 glazed ceramic & Madonna Lillys', 'Carol Rama shoe, 2019, glazed ceramic and fur' & 'Salmon Heel, 2019, ceramic and fur'. Anne Bourse's work seen in window.
Photo : Marc Domage, le Crédac, 2022
'Piss in Boots (Living Currency Parlour set), 2022 glazed ceramic & Madonna Lillys'
Photo : Marc Domage, le Crédac, 2022
About ‘Piss in Boots, (Living Currency Parlour set)', glazed ceramic with Madonna lilies, 2022.
I made this work on a ceramics production residency at Studio Ernan in Albisola, Italy between April -June 2022, supported by Ciaccia Levi Gallery, Paris-Milan & Abc-Arte, Genoa. The work was made using the traditional Majolica glaze technique. When making this work I wanted to create an ostentatious, over saturated piece of fantasy furniture for an imagined parlour/boudoir set. Through using fragments of the female/femme form, piss, squid beings, coins and sausage/turd/penises as recurrent motifs - I wanted to allude to the body and it’s fluids as a ‘living currency’- confusing gold, flesh and urine. The ‘pissy’ boots are standing astride a pile of Medusa headed coins and turd like sausage forms. Piss in particular is used as a recurrent celebratory and debasing symbol within my work.
Carol Rama shoe, 2019, glazed ceramic and fur' & 'Salmon Heel, 2019, ceramic and fur'. Anne Bourse's work seen in window.
Photo : Marc Domage, le Crédac, 2022
Silver O I, 2017, silver.
Photo : Marc Domage, le Crédac, 2022