Original artwork description:

60 x 80 cm - paper and acrylic on canvas - 2024

Lysistrata is the title of a comedy by Aristophanes, which he presented in 411 BC. BC, but also the name worn by its main heroine. It tells the story of this Athenian woman, who, tired of enduring war for a long time, convinces other women in the city but also in the surrounding regions to go on a sex strike. Entrenched on the Acropolis of Athens, the women hold on thanks to the tenacity of Lysistrata, and the men end up making peace.

In my painting, Lysistrata, "she who unties the armies", is naked, slumped in her armchair which serves as a double seat: she both takes the place of the archons, the political leaders of the time, but also occupies the 'Acropolis, the core of the polis, political place par excellence. On her sex, I put a STOP card from the game 1000 Terminals to emphasize that the door is closed until peace has returned to the city.

Support: repainted canvas (repentance)
Paper: Bilingual edition of Lysistrata, 1000 Bornes, both found second-hand

The canvas is varnished and equipped with a hanging system.

Materials used:

Paper and acrylic on canvas

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