Contempt Sculpture

Born in Quebec, lives in Paris and works in Montreuil. Sculpture and installations are Denise Frechet's favored means of expression, but she also loves drawing, painting and printmaking . She creates her works using various materials, such as ceramics, castings, fabrics, metal, drawings, found objects and naturalized animals... She suggests poetic or violent stories with a twist of black humor. Her universe, where both Eros and Thanatos play central role, reveals a fascination for the body. Fragmented or distorted, the body traces a primitive mythology rooted in the psyche. Her work can be provocative, sexualized and political, but humour and scorn are never far when she stages the ills of contemporary society.