Isha red skull sculpture vanité on resin sculpture, brass base L. Le Constant

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Laurence Le Constant
Isha red skull sculpture vanité on resin sculpture, brass base L. Le Constant
2021

About the Item

Isha, is a unique work by the French contemporary artist Laurence Le Constant. The sculpture of the skull is in resin, with recycled goose feathers, (tinted naturally in red pigments), the base in brass. The work of Laurence Le Constant sketches out the contours of a bewitching world, populated by singular hybrid figures. Childhood fantasies are revived, lulled by cosmic legends and tales from which she borrows many references. Both figurative and dreamlike scenes are presented in a multifaceted way. Situated in this vaporous gap between the imaginary and the real, the pieces created open onto essential metaphysical and identity questions. The use of noble materials, precious wood, crystals, feathers, coral and fossilized animal teeth, keeps the symbolic power intact. If the visual appeal operates immediately, the works only reveal their ambivalent secret in a second phase, when the visual pleasure has passed. The artist draws on the rich heritage of her training as a cabinetmaker, upholsterer, embroiderer and feather-worker to offer her meandering introspective and her haunting memories with delicate and poetic contours. Dissociation of the body and the spirit is the central subject of study for Laurence Le Constant; she explores this constant duality through the different stages of life: the difficulty of becoming a woman, the decline of becoming old and the transition from life to death. In the series My lovely bones, the artist becomes an archaeologist of memory. First-named Dove, Tina and Maria, her vanitas are portraits of prominent women from near and far, echoing her personal genealogy. Each piece is unique and requires hundreds of hours of work. The carefully selected feathers, are glued one by one on a resin base. Halfway between funerary outsider art and haute couture, the artist sculpts feather like one would weave a cocoon. Incantatory gestures, hypnotic technique, behind the symbols loaded with anxiety, she tries to ward off oblivion. This theme, offering a range of precious relics, oscillates between the most delicate and the emergence of the most archaic and is inspired by La Loba, a Mexican tale where the Wolf-Woman picks up bones belonging to animals in the desert, so that they are not lost to the world. The purpose is to preserve what remains of those that shape us and thus avoid their actual disappearance. These are figureheads that punctuate her personal history. The given name eventually being the last ceremonial remembrance. Since the exhibition, Her Garden, Laurence Le Constant reconstructs a lost Garden of Eden, conceived as a rite in different nostalgic microcosms gathering the scattered pieces of her psyche. Text by Anne-Claire Plantey, Artefacts

Creator:
Laurence Le Constant (1976)
Creation Year:
2021
Dimensions:
Height: 12.6 in (32 cm)Width: 7.49 in (19 cm)Depth: 11.03 in (28 cm)
Medium:
Brass,Resin
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Paris, FR
Reference Number:
Seller: LLC_I1stDibs: LU151529949892