Oda Jaune
S’émerveiller
On the occasion of, S’émerveiller, the cycle of meetings and Oda Jaune’s solo exhibition Oil Of Angels in our Paris space, a conversation will take place in the gallery between the artist and art historian Amélie Adamo on Thursday March 20 at 7pm. A book signing of the eponymous catalog will take place before hand from 6pm to 6:45pm.
Galerie Templon, 30 rue Beaubourg, Paris
March 20th at 7pm
In a series of nineteen oils on canvas, Oda Jaune delves into a theme as timeless as it is universal: unconditional love.
Inspired by the poem “Touched by an angel” by Maya Angelou the paintings focus on the power of love through the fascinating prism of angels recognized by humans since the dawn of civilization and archetype of communication between mortals and the divine.
The artist
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1979, Oda Jaune studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf before developing an interdisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture and installation. She lives and works between London, Paris and Bulgaria.
Oda Jaune’s work is driven by a sustained inquiry into the instability of reality and the transformative potential of form. Rather than representing the visible world, she constructs new modes of existence in which the distinctions between body and object, organic and artificial, attraction and disquiet cease to remain fixed. Her works propose an expanded anatomy of life, where objects acquire corporeality, bodies dissolve into landscapes, and unfamiliar organisms emerge with an uncanny sense of intimacy.
While painting remains central to her practice, sculpture has become an increasingly significant field of investigation. Working with materials including bronze, ceramic and blown glass, Jaune explores the physical and metaphysical capacities of matter itself.
Without belonging to any single movement or tradition, Oda Jaune has developed a singular visual language in which beauty and estrangement coexist, and where imagination functions not as an escape from reality but as a means of generating new realities.
