Julie Béna

Spidernet – Little Fly –, 202022 x 42cm3500 EUR

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handmade lacework, coloured threadsNiCOLETTiLondon

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This whimsical artwork features a minimalist, abstract composition in pencil and ink. The drawing depicts a scattered arrangement of loosely sketched lines and shapes, including circles, scribbles, and cursive handwritten text. The color palette is primarily monochromatic, using shades of black, white, and gold. The overall impression is one of spontaneity and a playful exploration of form and text. The artwork appears to convey a sense of introspection or personal expression, with the handwritten phrases hinting at intimate thoughts or emotions. The simple yet evocative style suggests a contemporary approach to conceptual art. ...

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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. ...