Artist : Yamina Belhadj Adda
Venue: Frac Picardie - Le Cloître
"The henna that has so often covered my hair is now deployed on paper, cardboard or canvas.
Once in contact with water, the pigment becomes a more or less thick paste that flows, sometimes stagnates, dries then cracks, with no possible repentance. My work, somewhere between drawing and painting, focuses on the representation of plant and floral motifs, derived from my observation of living things and my desire to reappropriate an iconography generally associated with the female sex. A symbol of vanity commonly associated with the female sex, the flower is sometimes transformed into a vulgar motif, evoking the taboo associated with its representation, in compositions borrowing from both Islamic art, traditionally iconoclastic, and tapestry or lace."
