This striking minimalist sculpture employs a muted color palette and abstract, organic forms. The work features a large, sculptural element resembling a strange, fantastical creature with outstretched limbs and a hollow, vessel-like form. The overall composition creates a sense of tension and whimsy, inviting the viewer to engage with the piece's enigmatic nature. The artist's use of simple, monolithic shapes and textures suggests a focus on primal, elemental forms, hinting at deeper symbolic or conceptual layers within the work. This distinctive sculptural piece likely reflects the artist's exploration of the intersection between the natural and the surreal. ...
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. ...
