The museums are closed but the galleries remain open and Art is invited to places where we can still admire the work of artists. Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche gave Prune Nourry carte blanche for a monumental installation, Amazon Erogen.
Playing with the volumes of the atrium and the iconic escalators under the glass roof of the Parisian department store, the artist presents a work composed of a breast, target on one side of 888 wooden arrows and feathers, and on the other of an arc. An interrogation on the feminine in its intimate flesh: the artist sublimated his personal experience of the disease in artistic progression, way perhaps to escape the reification of the body and reintroduce a subjective narrative where the protocols can give the impression of transforming the patient into a secondary resident of his disease?
The aesthetic of the intimate ordeal thus joins the universal myth of the Amazons who mutilated their right breasts to fulfill their destiny as warrior archers. In all of Prune Nourry's work, the relationship to the body, particularly female, is tirelessly questioned. Art becomes another way of apprehending anthropological developments which shed light on the structures of our contemporary civilizations, in their mutations and their paradoxes. Throughout his work, creative metaphor and symbolism offer a different way of seeing, through the prism of myths and founding stories.
Multifaceted artist, sculptures, performances, videos, installations, Prune Nourry questions the modes of institutions of otherness through works with inspiring words, away from certainties and closed reasons. Throughout her works, exploring questions of gender, filiation, kinship embodied in the body, she expresses in the sublime of art how the dissolution of the symbolic can make openness to fiction and access problematic, for the individual, at a level of otherness other than his own image.
Amazon Erogen, to be discovered at the Bon Marché Rive Gauche until February 21, 2021.
