Installation | 4m x 2m x 2m
Raw earth, wood, moss, candles
For a long time, some human cultures have glorified the vulva, going so far as to venerate it. In this installation, I invite you to celebrate the goddess Vulva, to contemplate and admire her in all her forms, in a deliberately intimate way.
Over the centuries, many sculptors and painters have chosen not to feature the female genitalia in their works, even if they depicted nude women.
The vulva was ignored, hidden or even erased a priori.
Major exception, The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet.
In paintings and sculptures showing naked women, the pubic region has often been covered with a piece of fabric or a vine leaf, like Adam and Eve expelled from Masaccio’s Eden. Conversely, the male sex appears in all its forms and media, since the dawn of time.
My artistic proposal, developed for this event at La fraîche, aims to change mentalities, break taboos and demystify genitals while respecting feminine nature.
How?
Vulvas were created by groups of women, groups of men, and sometimes mixed groups, with the same objective: to speak freely about women’s sex, its mystery, the unsaid and the violence that is intimately related to it. linked. And also, conversely but implicitly, female pleasure which is difficult to represent.
The medium which made it possible to carry out these modelings is obviously earth, a natural and often therapeutic material, which allowed languages and imagination to be loosened.
My ambition ?
Encourage reflection, break down unconscious barriers, create a world of questions about the position of women in our society. But without fuss!
This collective work is reproduced with respect, in a deliberately discreet and intimate manner.
For me, any creation – and particularly, this installation – constitutes a primordial mode of communication, which allows us to question the most delicate subjects, including that of the female sex. The exchanges provoked by this project were both negative and positive, virulent, intense, but never neutral.
Whether they came from women or men, the criticism focused on my intentions and sometimes turned into interrogation.
In fact, my subject is freedom of expression.
