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Francine Gourguechon

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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
that accumulate in your mind over time . This is a mysterious process and seems to express itself in creative thinking .
Despite to clear references to perceptual reality , your visual vocabulary , as reveals the interesting Derriere , has a very ambivalent quality . How do you view the concepts of the real and the imagined playing out within your works ?
Derriere is an early piece . I was beginning to understand how to imagine transforming the known figure into something more creative , more meaningful .
Pensive
I have always been fascinated in indigenous people , their tribal organizations and connection to the natural world . The body art and physical decorativeness is a visual key to their societal operations and exquisite creativeness . These ideas of body art don ’ t come from personal experience in any way but from the life long study of art and humanity
I remember using my mosaic skills to cut and break glass to complicate the form and give it a multi faceted appearance . The large glass chunks that crown Derriere where picked up off the floor of a glass foundry .
We like the way your works accomplish an insightful investigation of the subconscious sphere . We daresay that your art practice also challenges an inner cultural debate between heritage from the past and traditions that carry on to this day : despite the reminders to traditional figurative approach , your works is marked out with a stimulating contemporary sensitiveness . Do you think that there ' s still a contrast