Drawing as aims
Flora
Indian ink and black smoke on Bristol paper
The "Flora » series is inspired by representations of autopsies that took place at the instigation of Frederick II in the 13th century and that continued well into the Renaissance. The interest here lies in making visible what by nature remains hidden and in linking it to divinatory practices such as anthropomancy (divination by analysis of human entrails). In some eighteenth-century anatomical plates by Jacques Gautier d'Agoty and René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeo, the curled-up skin following the cross-section of the abdomen offers an analogy with a flower. "Flora" are drawings made from a stain of ink and smoke, sometimes from viscera imprints and traces of blood. A three-dimensional reading invites deciphering; science, psychology and esotericism (divinatory practices) meet in a hybrid form mixing plant and animal.
90/90cm
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