HOGCHESTER ARTS

March 24, 2024. Watercolour drawing. 42cm x 29cm

Ingrid Berthon-Moine's artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing, and installation, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences like sexuality, illness, and death.

Rooted in the experience of inhabiting a female body, Berthon-Moine disrupts idealized femininity, proposing a new language for female subjectivity. Combining the strange and the familiar, her sculptures defy conventional gender binaries with anthropomorphic forms, immersing viewers in a realm of ambiguity and disquieting sexuality, presenting openings and tumescent forms suggestive of erogenous male and female body parts. Through material choices that juxtapose soft and aggressive elements, she challenges binary notions of beauty and repulsion, destabilizing our singular selves.

Her visceral drawings and sculptures capture the rhythm of life in constant flux, exploring the evolving nature of human identity. By breaking down barriers between self and others, male and female, Berthon-Moine invites us to embrace ambiguity and the blurring of boundaries. In a moment where the modern Western vision of the human being is being challenged, Berthon-Moine’s works explore the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses. Her hybrid, manifold subjects signal new subjectivities, hierarchies and anatomies.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

It’s Getting Clawser, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2022)               You Tear Us, Kelder Projects, London (2018)

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Selected Group Exhibitions 

Mirror of Mysteries: Women Artists and the Surreal Legacy, curated by Huma Kabacki, La Boulangerie, Paris, France (2024)

Antigone Revisited, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Hypha Studios, London (2024)

Digital Art School, curated by Hospital Rooms, Hauser & Wirth, London (2024)

2 FOR 1, Hypha Studios Stratford, London (2023)

Recreational Grounds VII, Wendover House, London (2023)

Open Mic by Abbas Zahedi, Frieze Art Fair, London (2022)

Love, Celebration and the Road Ahead, TJ Boulting, London (2022)

Faire Corps, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France (2021)

Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2021)

SupaStore Academy, Nida Art Colony, Neringa, Lithuania (2020)

Return to The Body, Chalton Gallery, London (2020)

Blame The Algorithm, Stadtmuseum München, Germany (2019)

We Sing The Body Electric, Gallery 46, London (2019)

Solitudes Molles Sous La Lumière Bleue, Espace Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland (2018)     

Playground, Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden (2017)

We All Have a Problem With Representation, The Showroom, London (2016)

Sausage Making, 2023. Sculpture. Variable size