Margaux Laurens-Neel, new artist in residence in the Jean Jacques Henner Museum !
Margaux Laurens-Neel
New artist in residence
Margaux Laurens-Neel, born in Deauville in 1997, is a Franco-British painter, photographer and sculptor. She lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021, where she attended the studios of Joann Sfar, famous comic strip author, Eric Poitevin, photographer, and François-René Martin, art historian. Her career was punctuated by a stay at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and another in Berlin.
Today, Margaux is accompanied by Galerie Droste, which recently offered her the opportunity to present her first solo show.
Through a sensual dialogue between painting and ceramics, she questions modes of representation of the naked, carnal and sexual body, and the expression of feminine desire. Using a symbolic bestiary and the language of flowers, clothing, accessories and color...
Margaux offers us to discover and love sensitive figures at the climax of their states of mind, their skin red and heated, their gaze distant and deeply immersed in their inner feelings.
" Henner, le ruban, la braise " will be the culmination of a dialogue with the work of Jean-Jacques Henner, conjuring up his two emblematic motifs: naiads and women in Alsatian costumes and headdresses. Crossing mythologies between the two painters, the emergence of ribbon-capped nymphs and the reincarnation of models from the past. To question what lies beneath the triple nomination of artist-muse-model. Between figures of the past and contemporary faces. In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Henner's obsessive and desirous spirit. Bewitching the museum, bringing his faces and silhouettes to life in pulpits and volumes... Alongside research into Alsace's traditional and folkloric heritage, that of headdresses and ribbons, a highly significant women's wardrobe. "
End-of-residency exhibition from May 15 to September 23, 2024
Carte blanche with Christelle Téa on March 14, 2024 from 6 pm
