Valentine Alma
Valentine Alma
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Honoring bodies, spirits, and community through art and ritual.
Chat des Artistes
2205 Parthenais
Tiohtia-ke, Montréal, QC , Canada
Femmes Monstres
The monster's face is a shifting mak, mutating to reflect the shadow of the societies she terrorizes. The female monster is a mirror, she is scary for she is powerful. And because of this very power, she has been marginalized, violated, incarcerated, burned at the stake. Painting the portrait of these mythological beings is offering them a space to unveil their complexity beyond the constricting dualities they have been divided into; saints and slut, witches and princesses, men and women.
These paintings explore the nuances of identity through a colorful spectrum. The individual is spun from a web of relationships, memories, ideas. Similarly, every myth exists in constellation. Exiled figures are painted out of the shadows and into community. Sourcing my iconography through representations of 'women' made by 'men' through time (be it pornography or the art canon) I aim to reappropriate the patriarchal gaze and free these archetypes of their too-tight definitions.
Photo Credits: Carlos Mao, Catherine Simard, Océane Leclair & Alex Tran
All artworks Property of Valentine Alma @All Right Reserved 2020
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