Julie Béna

Hanging Cage, 202124 x 15 x 15cm4000 EUR

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handmade lacework, colored sewing threads (brown, red, violet, black, green, beige), fimo paste, metal wire????NiCOLETTiLondon

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

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. ...