In reference to the Aristotle’s “rethorical triangle”.
Human Psyche.
4 words of references conveying the emotions and narrativity in the Greek mythology, belonging to our collective psyche, universal themes who touch our interaction with each other and the universe.
EPOS, PATHOS, MYTHOS, EROS
( 2008-2017 )
In forest’s
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obscure ocean’s
Depths
Love and death
intertwine
EPOS
Epos refers to the use of epic storytelling techniques, often involving heroic characters and grand narratives. It can be a persuasive tool by creating a compelling and memorable story to engage and persuade the audience.
EPOS series New epic in our time.
Fashion, medias, advertising, sub-cultures, create new ” Heroes”, using to this ends attributes that are iconic to cultures past and present. The symbols are for groups identification by pictorialising their history. Most of the original meaning and purpose are buried.
In our time, these appropriations are made for narcissistic and trivial reasons, to achieve entertainment or outstanding individualities.To illustrate my reflection on this subject I used :
-Punks Mohawk, ( reference to native Indian’s mohawk :analogies and appropriation of iconic hairstyle, skin alterations, illustrating their rejection of traditional society.
-Tattooing, piercing a worldwide phenomenon.
-Suffering : St Sebastian martyrdom ( iconic figure of the Christian religion, who suffered and died for his beliefs) :analogies with the tools used for tattooing and the suffering, through the arrows. Achieving with painful skin alterations an esthetic ideal. The “arrows of desire” became the symbol of the gay community through magazines and artworks . I used the Pâte de Verre technique creating sculptures with a classical touch on a significant scale.
To express the narrative intrinsic to my artwork, I developed an “affresco” technique for ” imagery”.
NEW BRAVE 1
NEW BRAVE 2
SWEET ARROWS
A BOAT FOR ULYSSES
A possible heroe’s death in a sinking boat, heroe’s fragility through life adventures and passions.
EROS
Eros is a term associated with the use of erotic or sensual elements in rhetoric. It can be used to appeal to the audience’s desires and passions, often in a subtle or symbolic manner.
EROS series, universal longing for beauty in the nature, in oneself, sensuality, “Ode to the Sea”, “Kissing the Poppy”, “Bird of Paradise” love for beauty, fame and self-delusion.
OBLIVION
PÂTE DE VERRE, LED
BIRDS OF PARADISE
PATHOS
Pathos is the appeal to the audience’s emotions and feelings. It aims to evoke empathy, sympathy, or a strong emotional response in order to persuade or influence the audience. Epos, Mythos, and Eros are concepts related to storytelling and rhetoric.
PATHOS series, human beings, freedom and tragedy. Women rights, oppression (House of Silences), back to the roots (Roots Legacy), boats people, immigration (Echoes of Silences).
ROOTS OF LEGACY
ECHOES OF SILENCES
PÂTE DE VERRE, COPPER ELECTROPLATED, FUSED
IMAGES.
MYTHOS
Mythos relates to the use of myths and cultural stories to convey a message or persuade an audience. Myths are powerful because they are deeply ingrained in a culture’s beliefs and values.
Inspired from our collective unconscious, from mythology and ancestral tales known in every culture.
WHITE FOX FAIRY TALES
Snow White revisited. This artwork recounts the little girl struggles with mother and father, during her journey growing up, seen through Carl Jung Theory of archetypes. Multiple layered life size pâte de verre sculpture “a fresco”, fused digital images.
SUMMER QUEEN OR THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF INNOCENCE
inspired by “Sleeping beauty”.
This installation is a reflection on how innocence is perceived over time.
When i think “innocence” i see youth, beauty, burned wings, experiences and the beginning of the loss of this “innocence”.
How in fairy tales are attributed to little girls and young girls, the imposed state of perpetual innocence as well as that of wisdom and beauty. with prince charming as a reward.
“faery-framed”, “fairy trap”
This series, thanks to the alibi of the fairy tale questions through this installation, how the teenager experiences her youth, her beauty, her unconsciousness, her first love emotions.
Today’s youth is even more than yesterday, in a difficult balance between the romantic or violent “self”, between romance and blood.
She has access to so many possibilities thanks to knowledge, techniques, to always greater freedoms, to consumption and temptations. Her live is full with multiple traps, she has access to all excesses. At the end of her teenager road she will succeed thanks to her discernment and resilience.
like butterflies she is beautiful, light, and at the risk of burning her wings, to learn life.
CINDERRELLA SISTERS DREAMS
“The Cinderella sisters dreams”, which sacrifices are we ready to do to achieve our dreams.
Cinderella’s stepsisters have dreams of their own, however, they are not as virtuous as Cinderella’s.
They dream of marrying the prince and gaining wealth and status, which leads to their jealousy and mistreatment of Cinderella.
Cinderella’s stepsisters are so determined to fit into the glass slipper and marry the prince that they resort to mutilating their own feet.
THE SOUL
“The Soul”, sculpture homage to David Bowie, inspired from the “blue bird” quote in his album Lazarus with the bluebird from Charles Bukowski. “There’s a bluebird in my heart that Wants to get out but I’m too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody’s asleep….” and my personal experiences when I was 17 years old.
17 years old
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Dreaming bird in a cage
They opened the door
A man showed me his face
Aman gave me a blue dove and a blue rose
I took them back behind the walls
The bird they let it fly away tearing my wings making me cry but the rose I kept against my heart
It was a day for despair and hope
Charles had a bluebird
He kept it behind his rips cage near is heart
Torn between hope and despair
He let it fly at night a little
Keeping it so tight the bluebird could not sing
That made him cry a little Cause he did not have a blue rose
Through heaven gates
David gave us his song bright and light
He forever another and forever the same
Between despair and hope surely that made him cry
But he released the bluebird so that we too would be born
a new and would be free
Cause he is the blue rose