MARCO presents the art of Adeline de Monseignat

As part of the commission program of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (FRAME), the artist Adeline de Monseignat (Monaco, 1987) presents his work entitled Enceinte.

The installation, located in the Sculpture Courtyard of the museum, consists of 40 spherical sculptures that seem to emerge from the earth, “which is a feminine symbol of motherhood. From there the seeds grow and that’s how the idea started,” explains Adeline de Monseignat to THE UNIVERSAL.

The artist, who resides between Mexico City and London, she says that motherhood is a topic that she has worked on a lot, even before she became a mother.

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“I am interested because it is a topic that talks about our origin and that is something that has always caught my attention, knowing our origin as human beings, the origin of life in general, etymologies, the origin of materials, fertility ”, he points out.

Regarding Enceinte, De Monseignat explains that she started from the most intimate: her experience at the birth of her children, where she underwent cesarean sections and was explained that the womb is made up of layers.

“I wanted to add a layer to the garden. The first layer is the plants, then the walls of the museum follow and then there are the mountains that surround the city of Monterrey. They are layers that protect the life they have inside. I am sharing something very intimate and by exposing it it becomes something in the public sphere. I like that people are in physical contact with my works, that they sit, that they touch them, that they lie down on the floor, as if they were inside a house, inside a maternal womb,” says the artist who has exhibited for example in Saatchi Gallery (London), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (London) and in the Federico Silva Museum (San Luis Potosí).

Enceinte’s sculptures were made with Xalapa travetine marble. The artist adds that she created 40 sculptures because they represent the 40 weeks of gestation of a pregnancy.

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“They seem perfect, but what I like about this material are its imperfections, such as pores, cracks, this tells you the story of the stone,” he details.

Enciente will be at MARCO until September 1. On June 21 and 28, the workshop “Reflections in Ceramics: Fertile Lands” will be held, where the work of De Monseignat will be explored through a guided tour and the creation of ceramics.