a silkscreen print of a females torse, breasts, face and thighs emerging from a flat earth surface

Prune Nourry

Mater Earth

€850

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Prune Nourry foregrounds the innate beauty and resilience of female anatomy in Mater Earth.

Created in partnership with Château La Coste, the edition reimagines the artist’s 27 metre-long sculpture at the Aix-en-Provence sculpture park 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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Prune Nourry is a passionate, socially engaged artist. Her work explores the body, sex, healing and bioethics. Her sculptures, installations and performances are staged, destroyed and buried – all documented with photography and video. Gender imbalances through sex selection is a major theme. In Holy Daughters (2010) she created hybrid sculptures of cows and girls. Cows are sacred fertile symbols, and she chose girls to challenge the preference of boys in India. After surviving cancer at the age of thirty-one, Nourry created the film Serendipity (2019). It documented her illness and healing, feeding back into universal questions of the human body and survival.

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