Museums are closed, but the galleries remain open and Art makes its way into 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 Erogène.
Playing with the volumes of the atrium and the emblematic escalators under the glass roof of the Parisian department store, the artist presents a work composed of a breast, targeted by 888 arrows of wood and feathers on one side, and an arc on the other. An interrogation on femininity in its intimate flesh: the artist has sublimated her personal experience of illness as a means of artistic exploration, perhaps in an attempt to escape the objectification of the body and reintroduce a subjective narrative where protocols can seem to transform the patient into a secondary resident of their own illness?
The aesthetics of the intimate experience thus joins the universal myth of the Amazons who mutilated their right breast to fulfill their destiny as archers warriors. Throughout Prune Nourry’s work, the relationship to the body, especially the female body, is tirelessly questioned. Art becomes a different way of apprehending anthropological developments that highlight the structures of our contemporary civilizations, in their mutations and paradoxes. In all her work, metaphorical and creative symbolism offer a different way of seeing, through the prism of myths and foundational narratives.
A multifaceted artist, Prune Nourry questions the modes of institutions of otherness through works that inspire thought, away from certainties and closed reasons. Throughout her work, exploring questions of gender, lineage, and kinship embodied in the body, she expresses in the sublime of art how the dissolution of the symbolic can make the opening to fiction and access, for the individual, to a level of otherness other than their own image problematic.
Amazon Erogène, To discover at Bon Marché Rive Gauche until February 21, 2021.
