COMPLEXITY of BEINGS...

« It must be understood that art exists only if it prolongs a cry, a laugh, or a complaint. »
Jean Cocteau

« Everything is in perpetual flux. […] Every animal is more or less human; every mineral is more or less a plant ; every plant is more or less an animal. There is nothing precise in nature. »
Réné Diderot

Françoise Cauvin-Monet questions almost obsessively the many faces of a personality, the symbiotic relation between men and women, and our connection with animality. Portraits divide and entwine; from union, a third character springs. That is one of the most recurring themes in her work.
Mythological symbolism is explored. So are tales and beliefs from ancient civilizations: doghead man, Bird-woman, horns or bull echo carnal love. Eerie creatures with peculiar gestures, either from the front or in profile, they belong to a whimsical, oniric, and sometimes slightly disturbing world...

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