An artist of irony, this visual artist wields subversion and juggles symbols in her vanitas paintings. An ode to life, these works desacralize our beliefs and overturn conventions, for the sheer pleasure of laughter and the freedom to think.
Corine Borgnet caused a sensation with her wedding dress, Amours éternels (Eternal Loves ), presented at Art Paris on the H Gallery stand. This life-size sculpture, conceived through her collaboration with curator Isabelle de Maison Rouge, required eight months of work without a safety net. Its fragile elements are glued together, some threaded onto a metal wire that stiffens the structure, which is composed of a myriad of bones colored with spices, coffee, and tea. To the poultry bones, the artist added 3D-printed vertebrae from a weasel now extinct due to the exploitation of its fur. A call to change our behavior.
This exceptional piece is part of his "Story of Bones" series , a reflection on vanity, fragility, and resilience. His "Vanity Shoes ," fairytale-like shoes , were the first in the series. They were followed by symbols of power and seduction: crowns and diadems, garters and corsets, and bouquets, all ironically exploring the symbols of our human condition.
The artist reclaims and sanctifies her relics, from used Post-it notes to burnt-out candle wax. She gives them a second life, as beautifully demonstrated in her installation * The Last Supper *, a symbolically set table of 13 place settings, representing an ephemeral royal feast fossilized for eternity. Each of her works, hauntingly beautiful, offers a multitude of entry points to tell its story. Her * Dead Plates *, whose Toile de Jouy pattern evokes 18th - century luxury, are pierced with a hole like those the Mayans placed on the heads of their deceased dignitaries. By escaping through this orifice, the soul was freed from earthly materialities to be reborn into purity.
Corine Borgnet herself is now leaving Earth to venture into space with a new series. She has once again chosen Jesmonite – a resin made from marble dust with the appearance of ceramic – which she combines with soda ash, minerals, and even meteorite particles to create the Moon and Mars in a dystopian vision. Their title speaks volumes: Escape Game . “I missed Earth,” the artist explains with a wry smile.
« In a dress! » Cistercian Abbey of Escaladieu Bonnemazon
Until November 3, 2024
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« The blessed era of the globophages » Idem+arts – Henri-Lafitte Cultural Center
3, rue Georges-Paillot, Maubeuge
Until 31 May 2024
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Artists' Salon
Guest artist: Corine Borgnet, with The Last supper
Freedom Space
1, avenue du Général-de-Gaulle, Massy
From April 27 to May 5, 2024
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