" Wise virgin, foolish virgin "

Diptych

Limoges porcelain

Unique

2019

Size of each virgin:

H42 x L23 x P23 cm

H16,5 x L9 x D9 in.

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Created during a residency at the Heritage House of Saint Yrirex la Perche, with a grant given by the city of Saint Yrieix, with the support of La DRAC Aquitaine

" Wise virgin, foolish virgin " is a diptych created specialy for the exhibition « La Seynie today », organized by the city of Saint Yrieix la Perche at the Heritage House museum. These two porcelain virgins are made with the last mold representing a virgin of the molds collection of la Manufacture La Seynie, and echoing the magnificent virgin with a snake from the Paul Marquet collection which was made in La Seynie during the XIX century

A first virgin, pure, seems to give birth to a harmonious and benevolent nature. This first virgin, all white, contrasts with the second one entirely black. A knot of intertwined snakes covers the globe on which this second virgin is.

 

If in religious iconography, the virgin crushing the snake symbolizes the triumph against evil; my black version of the virgin surrounded and invaded by many snakes is very different ... These 2 virgins form a diptych opposing good and evil, life and death, the wise virgin and the foolish virgin.