Acquisition publique Alicia Paz
Marine I & II, 2024 - installation view
© Alicia Paz – ADAGP © Photographe : © Benjamin Gavaudo / Centre des monuments nationaux
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The diptych Marine I & Marine II, 2024 was first displayed during Alicia Paz’ solo exhibition at Château de Haroué in France. This work explores the theme of the sea as a metaphor for risk-taking in relation to desire and freedom. Its different elements are like waves, overlapping one another with strips of golden foam, and bearing representations of azulejos from different regions of the world. The mermaids, hybrids of animal and human, emerge more and more as a feminist symbol of otherworldly autonomy, strange and sometimes frightening...
Paz is interested in connecting the human with animals, or human and plants, especially in this time of climate change crisis.
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