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Polin
Back in the mountains since the spring of 2017, Polin draws and redraws endlessly a female bust without head, arms or legs.
This bust was first and foremost the receptacle of her feelings and her questions about her femininity and her status as a woman at the dawn of her 30th birthday.
Little by little, introspection gave way to a more general and more or less committed reflection on the characteristics of femininity, the representations of women, the persecutions linked to the feminine gender, on the feminist struggles of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Polin almost always designs this female bust with a corseted form that refers to the rigid constraints faced by women at all levels and in all societies. The female sex is simply evoked by the two nipples and the navel forming a triangle with the tip downwards.
Her work is that of an angry and obsessive woman, uncomfortable with representations of femininity, but who occasionally gives way to a lighter and more sensual expression of the female body.
Polin seen by Agathe (Co-founder of the Villa Glovettes artist residency)
Sometimes you have to start by meeting the person before the artist. The one who introduces herself offers to go for a walk with the dogs. The one that, along the way, disseminates some information about the existence of an artistic production and a gesture, which has been repeated for a long time.
Pretending to want a coffee, I ask to see the work. On the bed, the desk, the table, the works neatly arranged in a box, invade the small inhabited space and plunge me into the artist’ studio.
The walk takes on a hallucinatory look in the middle of a dense forest of busts. From one painting to the next, Polin's vast network of figures creates a world in its own right, hollow out of our own. On its innocent plastic surface, a deep feminist struggle emerges from which the artist operates. It is in this sisterly utopia that Polin takes us on a journey.
Polin seen by Laure from Sismique & Sensuelle
Polin is the story of an outbreak.
An artist of moving sensitivity, even fragility, she has long kept her work to herself. Her works are intimate witnesses that had to be kept to oneself.
She weaves the strength of her expression with perfectly ordered lines drawn freehand. An impressive work of regularity and precision that only small tremors of emotion attest to the fact that they were carried out without tools.
Under the influence of this bust without head or arm, she finds her freedom by transforming it, coloring it, assembling it according to her personal path.
We then witness the transformation of the artist over the course of her drawings.
Depending on the period, we can read the fears, the anxieties, the testimonies of her time, the weight of the past, the lineage of women, the mechanics of the mind, the understanding, the forgiveness and the blossoming that led Polin's Art to be seen today.
I invite you to follow her on her well-drawn path.
