Jeanne Rimbert: The fallen bodies land & The Banquet, 2023-2024
The fallen bodies land
The fallen bodies land is a protean place where ceramics and salvaged objects meet in digressions that are at once architectural, carnal and religious.
Precarious flesh that builds, scaffolding phallic towers with dripping tops, fighting against the threat of a foretold expiration. Baroque architecture with an organic quiver. The materials argue and the colours cry out the neurosis of bodies wandering in this contemporary vanity that is as attractive as it is repulsive.
As an imperfect blend of art brut and popculture, of fanciful and even fantastical grafts of figures, icons and totems, the installation asserts a vulnerability that is imbued with naivety in the choice of forms and media, selected for their physical and symbolic qualities, and is in keeping with a definition of contemporary art as precarious.
This strange carnival invites the viewer to plunge into a universe where the sacred and the profane meet, creating a heterogeneous aesthetic that unabashedly blends the unbridled cruelty of Elizabethan theatre, the learned classicism of still life painting, the primitive magic of voodoo and the new icons of our over-consuming society.
The banquet
The banquet is an installation that invites us to sit down at the table, somewhere between mythological narrative and cannibalistic appetite.
Like its big sister The fallen bodies land, the banquet is an imperfect blend of art brut, pop culture and Elizabethan theatre; a ritual celebration with an organic thrill.
Composed of fanciful, even fantastical grafts between body parts (Titus Andronicus), voodoo (black virgin, string doll) and vanity, the installation exposes our turpitudes, calling on the sacred to fight against the threat of an impending expiry.
Captions
- The fallen bodies land – Piggy Bad Sow, 2023, glazed stoneware, 133×40 cm
- The fallen bodies land – installation, 2023, glazed stoneware, trashes, 144×250 cm
- The fallen bodies land – Worries, Amphora and Dead Apple, 2023, glazed stoneware, trashes, 100×180 cm
- The fallen bodies land – Dead Pirate Tower, 2023, glazed stoneware, 146×44 cm
- The Banquet, Table Installation – Masks, vase, red virgins, 2024, glazed stoneware, threads, 45x80x30 cm
- The Banquet, Ghost Hoodie, 2024, glazed earthenware, 14×19 cm
- The Banquet, Hanged Heads, 2024, waxed earthenware, 10×10 cm
- The Banquet, Small Hand, 2024, glazed earthenware, 14×9 cm
- The Banquet, Melted Apple, 2024, glazed stoneware, 17x20x20 cm
- The Banquet, Red Virgin, 2024, glazed stoneware, threads, 45x20x20 cm
