Julie Béna

Drippy Mouth 1, 202133 x 28cm3500 EUR

Details

MaterialGallery

hand blown glass, powder-coated steel, lamp bulb, wiresNiCOLETTi

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork depicts a striking glass lamp shade that dominates the composition. The shade is a vibrant, fiery red-orange hue, with an irregular, organic shape that evokes the appearance of a glowing ember or molten lava. The lighting fixture casts a warm, amber glow, creating an atmospheric ambiance. The overall design showcases the artist's skilled use of color and form to imbue the piece with a sense of raw, elemental power. This sculptural lamp likely reflects the artist's exploration of the dynamic interplay between light, material, and the environment, capturing the primal essence of illumination. ...

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Artist

Julie Béna

B.1982

Julie Béna was born in 1982 in Paris, France, and currently lives and works between Prague and Paris. The work of Julie Béna is made up of an eclectic set of references, combining contemporary and ancient literature, high and low art, humor and seriousness, parallel times and spaces. Comprising sculpture, installation, film, and performance, her work seems to often float in an infinite vacuum, unfolding against a fictional backdrop where everything is possible. Over the past years, Béna has developed a range of personal cosmologies in which she stages seemingly banal characters and objects that have enigmatic conversations and interactions with each other. From Pantopon Rose – a character taken from William S. Burroughs’ ‘Naked Lunch’ –, to Miss None and Mister Peanut – a disembodied floating wig and the iconic monocled anthropomorphic peanut –, Béna lends her characters a singular agency and voice, which defines them by what they are not. ...