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

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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary art piece features an abstract, minimalist style that creates a striking visual impact. The predominant elements are black, wire-like structures arranged in dynamic, sculptural forms, evoking a sense of movement and energy. The compositions draw the viewer's attention to the negative space, emphasizing the interplay between the solid and the void. The artist's technique showcases their mastery of working with simple materials to convey complex ideas, likely exploring themes of the human form, the natural world, or the intersection of the organic and the industrial. The artistic style and context suggest a thoughtful exploration of abstract concepts in a refined and visually compelling manner. ...

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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. ...