FASCINATING...




I wonder what you would think if you came into a museum gallery and the first thing you saw was this?


or this...








you step away and you see them both together…

Some visitors didn't stop at all...as if they hadn't seen them They are titled "Destruction is not the end all" (2017)

The artist is French, only 32. Prune Nourry. She now lives and works in New York. Between 2010 and 2015 she chose Asia to explore the issues of Pre-birth gender selection through different subjects. Here in the museum the different sculptures are often placed next to one with which she feels it has an affinity artistic.

The exhibition is situated all over the museum and to be quite honest the leaflet given to me to follow the route was hopeless. Rather, like any map, I wasn’t too sure in which direction to go. So, I wandered. I know the Guimet Asiatic museum quite well and sometimes their contemporary exhibitions are fascinating. The one called HOLY, was in my book, outstanding.  She created a series of « dogs » which were symbols of girls Half animal - half human or rather a little girl. Here is one of them « Squatting Holy Daughter ».



 The first one is called "Standing Holy Daughter" Promise of which there are two: that of wisdom and that of childbirth


The second is called "Squatting Holy Daughter"  Support » - a little girl appealing to the world with her fragility. 




Holy daughter

Visny Hayagriva - Xc

Reflective Gloves - 2012





« Ambivalence » suggests a fierce god who frees from father, surgical gloves that preserve of selection life.











« Abundance » too. A thousand arms for practising generosity. A nourishing hand that conveys the life-giving fluids, water, blood and sap
 Transfusion - 2012

Hand Machine - 2012



 Here is « Continuity » - without the hand, the tool is inert. How much longer will the machine need human beings?
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« Ganges Life Line » . Shiva, lord of the mountain receives the waters of the Ganges in his hair.




Ganges Life Line - 2012
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Destruction is not the end all. A hand made out of plaster, wood, simulacra and sticks













 







« The Terracotta Daughter ». The question asked is « What would Buddha’s smile be like if he had been a woman »?  That is an Afghan head of buddha. 





Head and Head of Buddha from Afghanistan

Head















This is a bust…
This is a bust…

This is a bust…
                                                 
"Scholars Root" by Zeng Xiaojun



 


 and next to it














Head of Terracotta Daughter

« Homage to a Mother-in-law ». Fractures, ruptures, compositions..Let the unexpected, circumstances, and unusual encounters guide the creative process for the work to acquire its full meaning...




This head is the Buddha and open to walk through. The objects presented inside the head     are offerings to the dead in carton and destined to assure the dead of all modern comfort beyond.
















 













I see now on the little brochure that I had missed two sculptures. As I found the exhibition so fascinating, I may well go back and discover more.

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