Bénédicte Parmentier

Man, his History and his enslaving solitude are the recurring themes that guide the creation of Bénédicte Parmentier.

Born in Picardy, land of battlefields and path of multiple invasions, a place which guided and nourished her approach. She carries out real memorial work by giving voice to these disappeared souls, these mutilated, exiled families and these sacrificed lands.

Scenographer for several years and puppet designer, inspired by the strength and sensitivity of the work of artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Berlinde de Bruyckere and Louise Bourgeois, she imagines an evolving sculptural series of characters and animals that she transposes into poetic universes imbued with theatricality.

Several contradictory themes are explored, such as delicacy and fragility, sustainability versus the evanescence of beings and things. The silence of these scenes exudes the beauty of the materials that confront each other: the finesse of the shapes and the roughness of the materials that compose them (plaster, textile fibers, metal, etc.).

It gives these hybrid souls an experience, an identity and above all a memory. Often presented in a playful aspect, imprisoned in their mutation, these assemblages become real reliquaries of meditative objects.