FIRST PLACE WINNER - Fine Art: Nudes (AMATEUR)
Farewell Mother

Photo © Pierre Barbrel
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Farewell Mother is a series of photographs which explore Femininity and separation through the triad VIRGIN-WIFE-MOTHER. It is inspired by representations of women in classic iconography and in mythology. This series gives a vision of Femininity inspired by the women around me and the ways in which they thrive, in their bodies and through their stories.
The action is intimately set in the bedroom belonging to one of these women; a survivor of cervical cancer, she will never be able to give birth. Though physically absent from these images, her presence colors the room through her preciously accumulated objects. Calling on childhood, religion and beauty, they create a dreamlike tension between innocence, seduction and mysticism.
In this room, another woman: a nude, thick-maned madonna, with sharp claws and wild hair. Theatrically lit, she disturbs the rules of contemporary, mediatized femininity. The hair on her body are markers of her satisfied unity with it, of a journey beyond puberty. We are confronted with the strangeness of our contemporary conception of women’s bodies; we demand hairless child-women, forever young, forever virgin. I am happy to introduce these unusual, inspirational women, who form through their ways of being a reflection on contemporary femininity.
After his studies and his enriching professional experiences in French luxury fashion houses, he returned to his first love: a thoughtful art, opposed to the strict aesthetic of fashion.
Fascinated by religious art and its mythical representations of transcendence, Pierre Barbrel commits to recreating, through his art, the experience of his confrontation with epiphany. His work is rooted in visual inspirations derived from syncretic myths and occult symbolism. His leitmotiv is the materialization of the soul through the body, a form of incarnation.
Pierre’s work was exhibited four years in a row at Le Grand Palais for ART CAPITAL, in Le Salon des Artistes Français, which earned him a bronze medal in 2014 and a Silver one in 2018.
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Farewell Mother is a series of photographs which explore Femininity and separation through the triad VIRGIN-WIFE-MOTHER. It is inspired by representations of women in classic iconography and in mythology. This series gives a vision of Femininity inspired by the women around me and the ways in which they thrive, in their bodies and through their stories.
The action is intimately set in the bedroom belonging to one of these women; a survivor of cervical cancer, she will never be able to give birth. Though physically absent from these images, her presence colors the room through her preciously accumulated objects. Calling on childhood, religion and beauty, they create a dreamlike tension between innocence, seduction and mysticism.
In this room, another woman: a nude, thick-maned madonna, with sharp claws and wild hair. Theatrically lit, she disturbs the rules of contemporary, mediatized femininity. The hair on her body are markers of her satisfied unity with it, of a journey beyond puberty. We are confronted with the strangeness of our contemporary conception of women’s bodies; we demand hairless child-women, forever young, forever virgin. I am happy to introduce these unusual, inspirational women, who form through their ways of being a reflection on contemporary femininity.
About author:
Pierre Barbrel was born in Paris in 1991. He studied literature and art, and completed a fashion design school curriculum to fulfill his creative endeavours.After his studies and his enriching professional experiences in French luxury fashion houses, he returned to his first love: a thoughtful art, opposed to the strict aesthetic of fashion.
Fascinated by religious art and its mythical representations of transcendence, Pierre Barbrel commits to recreating, through his art, the experience of his confrontation with epiphany. His work is rooted in visual inspirations derived from syncretic myths and occult symbolism. His leitmotiv is the materialization of the soul through the body, a form of incarnation.
Pierre’s work was exhibited four years in a row at Le Grand Palais for ART CAPITAL, in Le Salon des Artistes Français, which earned him a bronze medal in 2014 and a Silver one in 2018.
BACK TO GALLERY