Original artwork description:

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55 x 38 cm, paper and acrylic on canvas, 2024

"Sharp Objects" is part of a series of paintings dedicated to heroines in literature. The principle is simple: after reading the book, I create a painting related to the female character, using its pages.

I discovered "Sharp Objects" via a mini series that I loved. I discovered that it was adapted from the eponymous novel by an author that I love: Gillian Flynn, already behind the books that gave rise to the films "Gone Girl" and "Dark Places". What I particularly like in her novels are her realistic, fragile and wobbly female characters, who do not seek to please. In "Sharp Objects", we meet Camille Preaker, a journalist who must return to her small hometown that she fled, to cover a news story. Someone seems to be targeting the young girls in the area. In addition to her old high school friends, Camille finds her toxic family, especially her mother. From her adolescence, Camille has kept thousands of words all over her body that she engraved herself to overcome her mother's moods. Only her head and hands remain blank.
As a result, on my canvas, I spared the character's head, leaving only the title of the book. The painting is cold, entirely done in black, white and shades of gray to express the flashback, nostalgia and the past. Just like the "Sharp Objects", I wanted a "sharp" canvas.

The canvas is varnished and equipped with a hanging system.

Materials used:

Paper and acrylic on canvas

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