N’avez-vous pas ri ?: Marianne Berenhaut

Dvir Gallery is delighted to open the new season with a solo show of Marianne Berenhaut, 'N’avez vous pas ri?’ which will be dedicated to three bodies of works: Poupées-Poubelles, Carnets-collages, Bits & Pieces.

In Marianne Berenhaut’s historical body of work Poupées-Poubelles, organs and limbs become disjointed and independent. The only material that holds them together, just barely, is the transparent fabric of women tights. These models are disjointed, twisted. Not body-machines: body-things, broken bodies. Berenhaut’s fascination of the wastebody, of the body that does not hold together, of the catch-all body, the bent body, struck, torn, filled with anything and anyone, fascination with the body triumphant over everything, body-belly, body without head, head within the body. « Looking at them I don’t feel upset. Mirror effect: I am it, pieces by pieces. I go out through every pore. I am crossed, invaded, dispossessed. And yet in this thin skin I grow, I am alive. » - Marianne Berenhaut.