{"id":1507,"date":"2022-05-21T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artaucentre.nnstudio.pro\/vitrine\/lion-15-melancholy-baby\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T14:03:06","slug":"lion-15-melancholy-baby","status":"publish","type":"vitrine","link":"https:\/\/artaucentre.be\/en\/vitrine\/lion-15-melancholy-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion #15 (Melancholy Baby)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daisy Madden-Wells explores how the visual language of the mythical and bestial acts as our proxy, or mediator, between physical form and the intangible. These forms become a linguistic character or glyph, necessary to express that which we do not have the words for.<\/p>\n

She suberts the heraldic practice of using characters to represent \u2018character\u2019<\/em>, by sculpting her works to act as vessels for vulnerability rather than opaque symbols of might. In creating sympathetic intimacy with archetypal figures she questions enshrined narratives, the ways in which we tell our stories, and \u2018agree\u2019 on history \u2014 illustrated in the uncertain grimace of the heraldic lion.<\/p>\n

This is reflected materially in her practice, with a recent focus on \u2018folk art\u2019 techniques \u2014 such as paper mache \u2014 traditionally used to create costumes and temporary structures as a tool for recreation and cartoonish storytelling.<\/p>\n

The work presented in the vitrine will continue this thread. Featuring a lion in eternal battle with a serpent, the work will explore the moment before<\/em> the \u2018decisive moment\u2019 \u2014 just before the final blow, a second prior to the weaving of legends. The lion and the serpent are chosen because they exist in the lexicon of mythic imagery. They are so bombastic as to become commonplace \u2014 in this way they are also able to represent you and I. The epic struggle of the day-to-day, in which we are all sure we are the protagonists in our own story. And we are.<\/p>\n

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