Hanging Cage
Hanging Cage
Hanging Cage

Julie Béna

Hanging Cage, 202124 x 15 x 15cmSign in to view price
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handmade lacework, colored sewing threads (brown, red, violet, black, green, beige), fimo paste, metal wire????NiCOLETTi
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This whimsical artwork depicts a figure trapped inside a delicate, birdcage-like structure suspended from a chain. The composition features a muted color palette dominated by grays and whites, with the central figure clad in vibrant turquoise and red attire. The cage is intricate, with a spherical top and vertical bars that create a sense of confinement. The overall style and technique suggest a playful, conceptual approach that prompts reflection on themes of entrapment, freedom, and the human condition. The artist's intention may be to challenge conventional perceptions and evoke a deeper contemplation of societal constraints. ...

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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. ...

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Eyes (Dragonflies)
Julie Béna
Eyes (Dragonflies), 2023
Drippy Mouth 1
Julie Béna
Drippy Mouth 1, 2021
33 x 28cm
Hanging Cage
Julie Béna
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Window with Cat
Julie Béna
Window with Cat, 2021
120 x 50cm
Ouin..., ouin (Gala)
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Ouin..., ouin (Gala), 2021
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Ouin..., ouin (Yvonna), 2021
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Spidernet – Little Fly –, 2020
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27 x 21 x 4cm
Drippy Mouth 1
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Drippy Mouth 1, 2021
33 x 28cm
Hanging Cage
Julie Béna
Hanging Cage, 2021
24 x 15 x 15cm
Window with Cat
Julie Béna
Window with Cat, 2021
120 x 50cm
Ouin..., ouin (Gala)
Julie Béna
Ouin..., ouin (Gala), 2021
70 x 60 x 8cm
Ouin..., ouin (Yvonna)
Julie Béna
Ouin..., ouin (Yvonna), 2021
39 x 34 x 34cm
Spidernet – Little Fly –
Julie Béna
Spidernet – Little Fly –, 2020
22 x 42cm
Mask
Julie Béna
Mask, 2022
27 x 21 x 4cm
Anna and the Jester
Julie Béna
Anna and the Jester, 2018
110 x 20cm
Eyes (Sad)
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Julie Béna
Curtain, 2022
200 x 140 x 10cm
Pendu (with distant feet)
Julie Béna
Pendu (with distant feet), 2021
148 x 68cm
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Drippy Mouth 2, 2021
33 x 28cm
Shh... ! (flat)
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