Fête Bucolique

A fantasy of weaponized escapism, Fête Bucolique transforms the rustic pastoral into a stage of resistance. Inspired by Pipilotti Rist’s explorations of escapism and her imagined all-female societies, these contemporary pastorals banter with Renaissance patriarchal scenes, replacing submissive muses with unruly Greek nymphs – “orphans of the wild”- who frolic beneath full moons while stags leap in the background, their antlers charged with symbolic power. Painted in rococo excess and encrusted with crystals, the canvases shimmer between illusion and structure, play and critique. Here, hyper-femininity performs as both seduction and defiance: the nymphs demand to be seen, seizing the gaze and turning spectacle into power.