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The Past is not Law

Madame2018

Outdoor Project

Outdoor Project
Rome, Italy

Through the investigation of books and engravings from the 19th and early 20th centuries that she hunts and collects patiently, Madame re-elaborates the formal heritage of the past, attributing a new and modern meaning to forms that have survived the passing of time. Moving to Rome she was interested in the representation of the human sense of piety, trying to imagine an atheistic version of an iconography that – in the urban imagination – is almost always imbued with religiosity, leaving behind herself both the vatican statue of Michelangelo and the Pasolini’s portraits of Ernest Pignon-Ernest appeared on the walls of Rome in 2015. Moving in the wake of the thought of the art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929), Madame focuses on the meaning of visible forms, aiming to understand what they say about the men and women who produce them and venerate them, rather than simply observe how they represent reality.

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  • Title: The Past is not Law
  • Creator: Madame
  • Creator Nationality: France
  • Creator Gender: female
  • Creator Birth Place: France
  • Date: 2018
  • Location Created: Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4, 00153 Roma RM
  • Productions: Outdoor - Heritage
  • Photographer's name: Alberto Blasetti
  • Bio: Madame è una giovane street artist parigina che realizza collage dal sapore rétro per ricreare nuove e insolite immagini contemporanee. Rielabora vecchi documenti e fotografie sui quali, a volte, interviene con disegni colorati. Una volta ultimate, le sue creazioni vengono scannerizzate e stampate, cosi da essere affisse in strada e offrire ai passanti inconsuete e divertenti visioni. Le sue opere hanno infatti come principale obiettivo quello di far divertire il pubblico, toccando argomenti quali la trasgressione, l’amore o il sesso.
  • Type: enviromental installation
  • External Link: https://out-door.it/madame-the-past-is-not-law/
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