Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Triple A (Access All Areas), 2024. Bronze and enamel. 9cm x 9cm
March 24, 2024. Watercolour drawing. 42cm x 29cm
Ingrid Berthon-Moine's artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing, and installation, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences like sexuality, illness, and death.
Rooted in the experience of inhabiting a female body, Berthon-Moine disrupts idealized femininity, proposing a new language for female subjectivity. Combining the strange and the familiar, her sculptures defy conventional gender binaries with anthropomorphic forms, immersing viewers in a realm of ambiguity and disquieting sexuality, presenting openings and tumescent forms suggestive of erogenous male and female body parts. Through material choices that juxtapose soft and aggressive elements, she challenges binary notions of beauty and repulsion, destabilizing our singular selves.
Her visceral drawings and sculptures capture the rhythm of life in constant flux, exploring the evolving nature of human identity. By breaking down barriers between self and others, male and female, Berthon-Moine invites us to embrace ambiguity and the blurring of boundaries. In a moment where the modern Western vision of the human being is being challenged, Berthon-Moine’s works explore the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses. Her hybrid, manifold subjects signal new subjectivities, hierarchies and anatomies.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
It’s Getting Clawser, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2022) You Tear Us, Kelder Projects, London (2018)
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Selected Group Exhibitions
Mirror of Mysteries: Women Artists and the Surreal Legacy, curated by Huma Kabacki, La Boulangerie, Paris, France (2024)
Antigone Revisited, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Hypha Studios, London (2024)
Digital Art School, curated by Hospital Rooms, Hauser & Wirth, London (2024)
2 FOR 1, Hypha Studios Stratford, London (2023)
Recreational Grounds VII, Wendover House, London (2023)
Open Mic by Abbas Zahedi, Frieze Art Fair, London (2022)
Love, Celebration and the Road Ahead, TJ Boulting, London (2022)
Faire Corps, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France (2021)
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2021)
SupaStore Academy, Nida Art Colony, Neringa, Lithuania (2020)
Return to The Body, Chalton Gallery, London (2020)
Blame The Algorithm, Stadtmuseum München, Germany (2019)
We Sing The Body Electric, Gallery 46, London (2019)
Solitudes Molles Sous La Lumière Bleue, Espace Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland (2018)
Playground, Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden (2017)
We All Have a Problem With Representation, The Showroom, London (2016)
Sausage Making, 2023. Sculpture. Variable size
Time At Hogchester Arts
Walking through the fields surrounding Hogchester Residency, greeting the animals that call it home, and experiencing the ever-changing weather—from rain and snow to fleeting moments of sun—all while enjoying a breathtaking sea view from my window, defined my daily rhythm while I was there.
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Strolling along the fossilized ammonite pavement in Lyme Regis deepened my focus on molluscs, particularly oysters, which have long fascinated me. This connection flowed into my work, inspiring an exploration through embroidered canvases and watercolor drawings, facilitated by the use of the spacious and luminous studio.
Above all, it was the human connections that made these two weeks memorable. The constant, engaging dialogue with my co-resident Jane Hayes-Greenwood and the generous and thoughtful presence of Hogchester Residency founder Chantal Powell made the experience profoundly enriching. Those times will remain etched in my memory as vividly as the ammonite fossils on the pavement—a Powellful alchemical blend of nature, art, and community.
