Rings A Bell
October 3 - December 3
Barbara Moura
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RINGS A BELL
online group exhibition | October 3 - December 3
Barbara Moura
Carole Mousset
Gvantsa Jishkariani
Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Victoria Iranzo
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Rings a Bell is an online group exhibition with artists that intentionally play with the familiar.
Artists Barbara Moura, Carole Mousset, Gvantsa Jishkariani, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, and Victoria Iranzo all make works that feel identifiable… at first. They Ring a Bell. There is something recognizable about them, perhaps even assumptions bring you in at first, and then — when the bell is struck — the surreal, the political, jest, the feminine, and the body form new connections and meanings.
Barbara Moura turns the old masters on their head. In her self-staged, self-portraits she appropriates works in order to act as a foil to the old masters. Her works announce a new protagonist and a new gaze, where vulnerability and empowerment rule.
Carole Mousset’s paintings and sculptures immediately makes one think of the body, of flesh. But the work is so abstract, so anthropomorphic, so visceral that we cannot altogether know it. Is it human? Is it attractive or repulsive? Or both? Her science fiction world liberates us from needing to know, and from our bodies.
Gvantsa Jishkariani's works are intentionally cheeky and consciously current. Her use of found tapestries or carpets stitched with contemporary phrases makes her work simultaneously funny and devastating. There is always a personal and political story woven in her universal themes.
Ingrid Berthon-Moine plays with texture, shape, and colour to emancipate images from their two-dimensional surface. Her works, while clearly carnal, embrace ambiguity and prefer liminality. Through soft, sensual forms, she deconstructs both the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body, challenging conventions around gender and sexuality.
Victoria Iranzo's paintings tread in a state of surreality. Natural and bodily forms are draped and dressed, zoomed in and out of, and scaled up or down. She creates a new world and a new visual vocabulary influenced by both fashion and nature and dictated by the ways that they are enmeshed.
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