Prune Nourry
Mater EarthYear 2023
Medium Hand-cut lithograph printed on a Marinoni Voirin press on 270g BFK Rives paper
Dimensions 47 x 33 cm.
Edition 30 + 12 AP
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Prune Nourry foregrounds the innate beauty and resilience of female anatomy in Mater Earth.
Created in partnership with AvantArte print house, the edition reimagines the artist’s 27 metre-long sculpture on the Art and Architecture walk as a 6-colour greyscale lithograph. The subject is inspired by the artist’s recollection of her pregnant friend bathing in goat’s milk. Produced at historic Parisian print house, Idem - used by Matisse, Miró, Picasso and Chagall - each print from the edition has been manually pressed using 19th century machinery before being hand-cut by the artist.
The lithographic process creates delicate yet unpredictable patterns, reminiscent of veins on human skin or cracks in the Earth’s surface. A minimal composition places focus on the pregnant body, while grey ink recalls the raw earth bricks used in Prune’s colossal sculpture.
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Born in 1985 in Paris, Prune Nourry lives and works between New York and Paris. She graduated from the École Boulle in woodcarving.
The artist is interested in the fields of science and anthropology, and more particularly in bioethical issues related to gender selection and artificial human evolution, through a practice that combines sculpture, installation, performance and video. In recent years, the artist has become known for her long-term projects, such as the one that saw her army of Terracotta Daughters, inspired by the terracotta warriors of Xi'an, travel the world between 2013 and 2015, from Paris to mainland China via Zurich, New York and Mexico City.
Prune Nourry's projects raise ethical questions related to the notion of balance in the broadest sense: the body and healing, demographic imbalance due to sex selection and scientific abuses, the ecosystem and the interdependence between living species. Her practice combines sculpture, installation, performance and video. She collaborates with artisans, works with diverse materials and explores new techniques. The works she produces are mainly large volumes made in situ, which she destroys, buries or stages in documented rituals, through photography and video. Her projects are international and based on meetings with specialists, psychoanalysts, geneticists, anthropologists and researchers.
Artists Prune Nourry
Name of the work Mater Earth
Year 2023
Medium Hand-cut lithograph printed on a Marinoni Voirin press on 270g BFK Rives paper
Edition 30 + 12 AP
Dimensions 47 x 33 cm.
Signed Yes
Numbered Yes
Certificate of authenticity No
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