Biography
One day my father told me "A girl doesn't sit at the table, a girl is meant to serve", on another occasion he said "you have an ass, just use it".
I know patriarchy very well, it was my world and painting my way-out.
Virginie BERNARD MORAND was born in Aix en Provence in 1971.
Student of the painter Jean ZUBER for five years, her work, close to a narrative self-fiction, questions the position of women, in their relation to men, in society, but also in the home.
She is based in Paris.
Alienation series
The "ALIENATION" series represents the journey to deconstruct the mental prison manufactured by patriarchy.
The aim of this series is, on one hand, to shed light on the basis of patriarchy, namely the social, moral and religious injunctions that weigh on women, as well as the weight of fatalism and capitalism. And on the other hand, to make the viewer aware of the consequences of this pattern in order to allow its deconstruction.
Pieces series
The "PIECES" series shows the use of the female body by the consumerist society.
In the erotic imagination, but also under the eyes of all, in advertisements for example, women are very often used in pieces, dismembered and objectified, they are evaluated only as bodies and not as themselves.
Coaster series
The COASTER series is an imagery of the elements that make up a woman's life, painted on coasters in order to underline the evident need for escape.
The work is to be composed by the coasters’s placement, making a cartography or oracle specific to each one.
This is to highlight the importance and multiplicity of burdens placed on women.
Art drawings
Illustrations - Genre Drawings - Commissions
