The artwork presented is a vibrant and exuberant floral still life. The canvas is filled with a profusion of colorful, expressive flowers in a range of hues, including vivid shades of purple, yellow, orange, and green. The loose, gestural brushstrokes and bold, intersecting forms create a dynamic, almost abstract composition that emphasizes the overall energy and vitality of the scene. The artist has employed a highly expressive, Fauvist-inspired style, utilizing intense, unnatural colors and a lack of naturalistic detail to convey the emotional impact of the subject matter. This work likely reflects the artist's intention to capture the joyful, sensorial experience of encountering a lush, vibrant array of flowers. ...
Delphine Hennelly navigates the complexities of identity, employing theatricality, repetition, and unexpected color palettes to challenge conventional perceptions. Her work often blends fleeting and enduring moments through non-linear, anachronistic timelines, creating a sense of omnipresence and temporal fluidity. By presenting archetypal figures and their interactions, she examines social behaviors, performative roles, and constructions of the self, deliberately removing them from biographical context to destabilize fixed interpretations and reveal multiple layers of meaning. Working primarily in painting and drawing, Hennelly explores the plurality of identity through pattern, satire, and theatrical motifs. She reconfigures archetypes and social relationships to highlight the performative and constructed aspects of selfhood, pushing each figure beyond fixed roles to activate a sense of fluidity. Her approach is deeply informed by feminist and gender theories, historical art practices, tapestries, and early Modernist movements, merging these influences to interrogate societal norms and the ways identity is continuously negotiated across time and context. ...
Pangée (Montréal, QC), established in 2020, is a contemporary art gallery with a critical curatorial approach that embraces diverse expressions of art and materiality and encourages dialogue between practices. Pangée currently represents ten Canadian artists and interweaves international collaborations throughout its programming with emerging and mid-career artists. Pangée operates its gallery space and artist residency in a historic building, overlooking Mont-Royal Park. ...
