Anne Ferrer: Les Fleurs du Mâle

This exhibition presents the most recent works of this artist, who has made textiles her favorite material for the past ten years.
Textile is indeed since 1990 the privileged material of this artist. The approach of the human and animal body, its cruel and tender staging have led her logically to carry out a work of sewing and assembly of fabrics ("pigs-suits", "sows-sacks of sleeping", "gallant beasts", "Beds of Camps") which have very quickly revealed her to the public and institutions.
This work was originally motivated by personal circumstances, since her studio and her home were at the time located in an old butcher shop.
She immediately became very interested in agricultural fairs and shows "where the winning animals are adorned with a big bow, just as the meat stalls are garnished with papillotes and clean flowers" and in the fashion shows of the great Parisian couturiers. Nina Ricci's "princess dresses" and Chantal Thomas's sultry lingerie have inspired her.

Since 1998, the question of rapture haunts her work and particularly her latest works entitled simply "flowers" or more precisely, "Flower-square", "Flower-Flower", "Flower-Accordion", "Small flowers", Flowers Pistils", etc...
"This state between "horror and delight" appeared in perfect logic with my previous productions, where purely physical phenomena operated at the level of the skin: this one gradually became detached from its support (the beast) to make it disappear and become an autonomous entity with its own structure (its veins: the seams). This one passed from a state of solid crust to a state of softness, of hanging, to become finally in the current works a kind of moult, hybrid animal and human skin, but also chrysalis, light flower, fragile, air ".

Invasive, gleaming, abundant forms and bright colors, shimmering, tactile, sometimes animated, his current productions are the opposite of an agreed "almost nothing", on the contrary there is a profusion of material, vinyl, latex, Skai, synthetic fleece, pink fur, nylon, wire strapping, fans, music boxes, etc. ...
"I have the very modest task of proposing a project that would put into action an important sum of means, "almost too much", to offer a questioning on this rapture (present in art since the myth of Marsyas), that the superfluous, the artifice, the ornament offer, and which puts in light this conflicting relationship that art (and in the first place the artist) maintains between the futile and the reason, but also between humor and seriousness".

Equivocal game between humor, insolence and seduction, his flowers transport us in an extraordinary vegetation, invading, luxuriant, sometimes of a joyful indecency, oscillating between perversity and jubilant sexuality. Jubilation that we find in her drawings, which will also be presented in this exhibition and which give a virtuoso and exalted account of the colorful and bewitching universe of Anne Ferrer, who offers herself to us with generosity during this exhibition.