Hadengue Laïna
"My unusual portraits"
The improbable scene has a touch of underlying surrealism and symbolism. The gazes of the figures are as if suspended, observing their surroundings as much as reversing to question their own interiority. They are placed in settings or landscapes, objects and animals collected in an apparently absurd or even extravagant manner, raising in their own way a few major recurrent existential philosophical themes or more contemporary political ones in which the Woman is the subject of all representations—wife, mother, girl, idol…
This is a series of unusual portraits—large canvases painted only in oil and imbued with the work of the great masters of painting. Here you see a delighted girl whose pre-programmed destiny vacillates after she reads, unexpectedly, a book by Anaïs Nin ("Le balai de la femme en rose"). There, a contemporary avatar of ‘Goddess Mother Hen’, playing nonchalantly with fertility ("Ah si vous connaissiez ma poule"). Elsewhere, a lonely old woman facing absence, the missing part, death ("L’impasse, l’autre reste") and also, against the background of an urban landscape threatened with submersion, a self-portrait of the artist nude, like Eve, facing a young woman wearing a veil, addresses the question freedom of decision for women, their link with a body that is a friend or an enemy and their destiny in different cultures, "La première de nous deux qui rira" ("The First to Laugh…"). LT
Exhibition
2017 : Biennale de Venise, Palazzo Mora centre Culturel Européen : Exposition Personal Structure « Espace temps Existence »
2016 : Mac Paris
2016 : ARTEMISIA GALLERY NY, Art Southampton
2016: ARTEMISIA GALLERY NY, Spring Show et Azart gallery, New York,
2016 : H2M – Hôtel Marron de Meillonnas Espace d'art
2015 : MAC PARIS
ARTHAMPTONS ARTEMISIA GALLERY NYC
2015 : ARTEMISIA GALLERY, New York
2014 : Presentation of the film "Mother effect" and an award in the "Best Artistic film" category at the festival "Short Before", Paris
GALLERY NY, Select Art fair.
BIENNALE D’ISSY, Paris
ARTEMISIA GALLERY NY, AAF
ARTHAMPTONS 2015 ARTEMISIA GALLERY NYC
2015: "Feminity" ARTEMISIA GALLERY
2013: ARTEMISIA GALLERY NYC
2013: GALERIE LULU MIRETTE
2009 : GALERIE ARCOS, ITALY
2008 : AAF London
Projection Video du Film « effet mère » SPACE DIALOGOS, Paris
2008: Espace Dialogos, Cachan
ARTEMISIA GALLERY NYC, New York AAF, London
2007: ART CENTER MANIF, Seoul Korea
ARTEMISIA GALLERY NYC, London AAF
Art center ART METZ
2007:Participation in the movement Degradarte, Rome Italy
2006: AAF, London.ARTEMISIA GALLERY, London
2006: Smart Martigues, French,
2005: The GALLERIA TRANSITO, Italy.
2004: Smar't Martigues.
Museum of Contemporary Art Toulouse (Art on the spot).
GALLERY A, Carcassonne.
Space Capitole, Toulouse
2004: Museum Art Contemporary Toulouse
2002: Center Contemporary Art, the Grande Arche de la Defense, Paris
2002: Communication and Art Gallery, Paris.
2001: GALLERY BCT, Spain. 2000: Contemporary Art Space, Borneim Belgium.
2000: Communication and Art Gallery, Paris.
1999: Centre for Contemporary Art Antwerp
1999: Communication and Art Gallery, Paris. Centre for Contemporary Art Antwerp 1987: Hangar 5, Bordeaux 1986: AGF, Bordeaux etc...
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Borneim, Belgium
Vasarely Museum Foundation Gordes
Collection of House Graham Lambert, England
MEMBERSHIPS AND IMPLICATIONS
Selection of the video: "Conscience mother effect" in the best film category artist
Since 2007 Artists Gathering Degradarte, Italy
Since 2003 Federation of Italian artists, active professional member of Arco
2007 Korea Contemporary Art Association, active member
PRICE
2006/ Price Contemporary Art space for Dialogos "The greatest inovation
Artist's artworks
Ah si vous connaissiez ma poule, 57.5"x44.9", Laïna Hadengue
Oil on canvas, 57.5"x44.9" (Inch)
11 000,00 €
