On n'est pas sérieux quand on a 17 ans !, 2023

Djénina Hagenburger   Emerging artists

"Born in Paris in 1974, my first great passion was Flamenco dance. Dancer in Raquel Gomez's company "Andanzas", I loved this very separate world, even off-beat, just on the margins, and which echoed what I am and allowed me to say, with the rigorous and uncompromising beauty of Flamenco, to what extent I was there, animated by the deepest feelings.

In 2007 and after stopping dancing, it was with the same frenzy and the same absoluteness that I gave myself wholeheartedly to painting.

I can say in retrospect from the beginning, how the fact of not having gone to art school brought me so much. By circumventing the technical difficulties, I found particular and singular solutions which belong to me and make my art so original, always ready to make new proposals.

I also learned to exonerate myself, during the creative process, from any judgment that too many references and analyzes could induce.

This absence of judgment today allows me, after years of research which I intend to continue as long as possible, to let the intuitions of the gesture to come come to me, without ever asking myself the question of final success. .. I know well that it is by daring, by juxtaposing everything and its opposite, that things, after the battle, are revealed... Then from the MOcHe beauty emerges and meaning, which until then, was lacking, explodes... Analyzes can then be carried out with this crazy observation that the subconscious is always a good hundred moves ahead of the conscious...

...And that this state of floating of ideas which pass through me and their realizations at my fingertips, allow me to express the PuNK poetry which animates me."

Jenina Hagenburger