Oda Jaune
Blue Skies
Bulgarian artist Oda Jaune is returning to Galerie Templon for the first time in five years with a major exhibition of paintings. Blue Skies, featuring a series of brand new works, is dedicated to the idea of the possible and the imagination, the title chosen for the resolutely optimistic vision it conveys, a vision liberated from practical conventions.
The exhibition reveals the artist’s obsessions, which she subjects to a constant process of change and reinvention by means of unexpected associations and formulations. Her distinctive universe draws on poetry, film and media culture, the history of art and her own history and is drawn to ‘everything that should not be said about the inner and the outer world.’ (A. Berland.) Oda Jaune uses paint to appropriate contemporary cultural images and unashamedly explore the images that lurk in the subconscious. She refuses labels, seeking rather to free herself from both artistic traditions and autobiography.
To mark the exhibition, the gallery publishes a bilingual catalogue (English and French) on Oda Jaune with a text by Alain Berland.
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.
