Oda Jaune
Masks
German-Bulgarian painter Oda Jaune presents a new series of watercolours that examine the idea of the mask.
These new works present ambiguous scenes depicting characters confronting metamorphosis and the interplay of transformation and concealment. From clown to nun, wrestler to mother, in images reminiscent of the cinema or advertising, Jaune questions social masks and the construction of personality.
Mingling visions of tenderness, naïveté and violence, Jaune continues her frank exploration of a subconscious freed from convention.
‘Oda Jaune is like that; she quietly contemplates people, showing the same consideration to pretty girls from magazines as to the deformed, carefully observing flaunted bodies and guarded feelings, applying the same scrupulous examination to all of them, the laser-like curiosity that children have before their minds succumb to prejudice,’ writes Catherine Millet.
The artist
Born in 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria, Oda Jaune lives and works in London. The artist uses her work to portray a tormented yet deeply poetical world. In it, images that are tender, naive and violent, occasionally erotic and funny, are mingled together as Jaune continues her frank exploration of a subconscious freed from convention. Her paintings are unsettling, putting the viewer in a position where abandon is the only option and inhibition is futile.
