Venus

Venus forms the symbolic axis of the collection. Anthropomorphic yet non-figurative, its slender verticality recalls the standing nude of classical statuary. Here, sensuality is displaced into materiality: textile becomes skin. Its condensed centre evokes fertility and the sacred feminine, explicitly referencing the Venus of Lespugue-the Gravettian figure emblematic of matrix and continuity of life. As with the earliest prehistoric representations, the work does not depict an individual, but a vital principle. It exists simultaneously as body-in-potential and germ, matrix and bud. Nature appears here as origin. Through this archaic survivance, the work bypasses Renaissance classicism and returns to a primordial iconography in which form was symbol before it was image. This is not erotic representation but sacralization through matter. The textile does not clothe the body; it is the body. 

Limited Edition of 24 pieces

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