Process - Ongoing

Since graduating in wood sculpture from the École Boulle in Paris in 2006, Prune Nourry has been exploring a wide range of materials and media, including clay, bronze and glass. Begun in 2017, the Process project highlights the procedure behind her works and in particular Terracotta Daughters, her feminine reinterpretation of the Xi’an terracotta warriors. Here, the original moulds are exhibited, some of them rendered precious because they are in bronze with a play on optical illusion through positive and negative, hollow and relief.

Busts of the Holy Daughters, hybridised sculptures of young girls and cows, are transformed into exquisite corpses, echoing the history of sculpture from the Victory of Samothrace to Hans Bellmer (Victory of Some Trace, Hommage à Belle-mère). In the same way, the lost-wax mould of a hand is transformed into a Transfusion, whose veins are the channels through which the molten bronze flows during casting.