UP. 07.08.2023
Migline Paroumanou is one of those artists who stand against the disenchantment of the materialistic, consumerist, secularised and globalised world by cultivating a particular relationship with otherworldliness, perception and sacredness. Her art takes shape amid a landscape of disrupted beliefs, which continue to play a part in the invention of new forms.
There is something almost ritualistic in her gestures, which materialise into forms both symbolic and intuitive. Sculpted in ceramic and porcelain, they brim with spirituality, as if they were trying to survive our limited and perishable existence. Her work is both phenomenological – that is, imbued with lived experience while also attempting to give form to phenomena that manifest the invisible – and steeped in Eastern and Hindu philosophies, whose various figures and worships embody a similar expression of a divine and ultimate beyond. (…)
Therefore, Migline Paroumanou’s practice seeks to examine the way in which art continues to attest to something that lies beyond ordinary matters, to an irrepressible need for detachment, abstraction and elevation.
By Leïla Quillacq
Extract from a text soon to be published.
Translated by Lucy Pons + Biographical notes translated with the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques - Cnap.
Migline est son œuvre, et ses réalisations sont des souffles de vie. Son travail artistique explore sans relâche la relation de l’individu et de son environnement. Aux prismes de cet environnement qui apporte matières, matériaux, esthétisme, elle explore tout de ce qu’est l’individu avec son histoire maillée, ses engagements, ses croyances, ses contradictions et ses doutes.
Migline Paroumanou s’acharne à distinguer l’horreur, à éblouir la fadeur des jours habituels. Son art gouverne et maîtrise une lumière.