Oda Jaune
All White
Oda Jaune will be showing her porcelain sculptures for the very first time, unveiling the results of an artistic practice she has been experimenting with since 2016. These previously unseen pieces will be exhibited alongside a dozen new paintings to create a complex ensemble that reinterprets and reworks the themes that obsess the artist: the body as the terrain for metamorphosis, and the emanations of the subconscious.
Her distinctive universe draws on poetry, film and media culture and the history of art, revolving around “everything that should not be said about the inner and the outer world.” As a painter, Oda Jaune makes use of contemporary images to lift the social masks that people wear and explore the views – forgotten, censured, desired – they conceal. The artist’s choice of unexpected associations liberates her both from artistic traditions and autobiography.
As a sculptress, she works with the delicacy of bisque porcelain to produce the sensual effect of flesh and the ‘infinite undulations’2 that so fascinated Auguste Rodin. In an interplay of white with ‘cloud, shadow and light’, the artist disconcerts with her fragments of metamorphosed bodies that produce ‘secret scenes’ in the tradition of Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois.
Untitled, 2016
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.
