Museum House, Historic Ethnologic Museum, Mijas, Spain
07/12/2023 to 07/01/2024
In “HU-MA-NE”, FufuLène and Evelyne Rigaud contemplate our relationship with our body, emotions and identity. Through a visual narrative they question the duality - often in tension - between individuality and society.
On the one hand, the exhibition reflects on our social embeddedness through certain norms, stereotypes or taboos that can still keep us trapped within “boxes”. Provoking and raising awareness about many collective aversions, it invites us to rethink the society that we believe to be modern, liberal and in which we can all flourish freely.
On the other hand, the exhibition explores our shared humanity, despite feeling it in the isolation or intimacy of our being. For example, Evelyne Rigaud expresses in her painting the individuality of the collective experience of the pandemic, or questions collective illusions (success, money, happiness, power). In her very carnal ceramic works, FufuLène gives shape to powerful affections, both beautiful and cruel, that arise, for example, when we are belittled or in one's slow, daily work on oneself.
How to paint the shortcomings of human beings? How to sculpt taboos?
