Sonia Denis Valverane

When Waves Carry the Energy of Conceptual Realism

Freud, now schizophrenic, draped in a symbolic straitjacket that chains him to his certainties in front of a warrior Barbie doll, fighting sexism by displaying a pregnancy, the unbeaten power of a being reduced to an object, and in front of an Andy Warhol perplexed by the agony of gender differentiation... The Twilight of Patriarchy, a painting by Sonia Denis Valverane, invites us to unveil what she has called Conceptual Realism.

Much more than a current, a style, it is an open-air book conceived as "a cultural message, a signpost inspired by real people or events while projecting what I perceive of the parallel world springing from their embodied materiality" notes the artist.

Deconstructing horror through aesthetics, silencing illusion by shamelessly exhibiting it is the cornerstone of Sonia Denis Valverane's work. "I do not seek to gratuitously offend but to denounce a malaise, whether social or individual"... Exorcise, analyze, overcome the conditioning of the psyche to discover the meaning of our desires and emotions, then reach the consciousness that generates the scenario of our being, such can be described her approach.

"Between the speculative aspect that the art market is taking on today and decorative art, I see my approach as an independent position that tries to reconnect with the very heart of the artistic act". The impulse, free of any constraint, which seeks to express through the human being a desire for creation, a spiritual impulse, a flight far from the limits of the world of matter that chains us to a body consumed by vital demands and inexorably alienates us.

Free and responsible, the creator assumes her eco-feminist gesture and discourse. Great-granddaughter of the Provençal painter Louis Denis Valerane, great friend of the poet Frédérique Mistral, the artist has been passionate about the arts and human sciences since childhood. His painting is a freeze frame, the synthesis of an idea, its origin, its consequences and sometimes its future (see painting M which summarizes the struggle of Nelson Mandela, where the spectre of the black Venus appears).

It is in the quintessence of art that Conceptual Realism is situated. This matrix of the other world which opens the doors of the perceptible and the invisible to us.

Social networks, growing movements on the internet confirm the trend that always places art at the highest level of refuge values.