{"product_id":"je-suis-femme-i-am-woman","title":"Je suis Femme - I am Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eIvorian visual artist and painter Claudie Titty Dimbeng is based in Paris and through her dynamic series of paintings called: 'The Gynaeceum' the artist intimately explores women's sexuality and its true expression, as experienced by women without shame or reprisal. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eDimbeng's Techinique \u0026amp; Approach to Painting \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e'Mixed Art Relief' is my mixed media painting technique which consists in producing an abstract or figurative work, where materials, forms and colors merge, thanks to the sanding and the sfumato\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e, contributing to the highlighting of my themes: gynaeceum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e, African spirituality, and contemporary issues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eInspired by Vohou-vohou\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e, it employs materials, such as raffia or tapa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e, which bring more texture to the color, and the subject gradually reveals itself. When the canvas is \"sculpted\", all facets of life spring through symbols. In my case, it will be about procreation, animal, vegetable or human forms. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eThanks to the materials used, the Mixed Art Relief links the original culture of the artist to that of his adopted and crossing territories, and promotes intercultural dialogue, which creates value. At a time when the question of identity and otherness can raise questions, even unleash passions, “Dialogue therefore consists in allowing people to accept difference\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eMy interest today is particularly focused on the forms of iteration and self-similarities at different scales, produced by this technique. My research on this phenomenon led me to the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, father of fractals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e, and to the Fractalist movement \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003ethat question me. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eHow do we evolve in this geometry of nature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e? Through what type of social and cultural interactions? What impact do we have on our universe governed by the roughness of forms, outside the framework of the smooth and ordered space of Euclidean geometry? How are we fractal beings?' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"q4iawc\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eCLAUDIE TITTY DIMBENG \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Local Vendor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47742465376477,"sku":"claudie-titty-dimbeng_je-suis-femme-i-am-woman","price":85675.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/7261\/1293\/files\/screenshot_2023-08-08_at_12.59.32_1_1_1_853bb655-8bd6-4fc7-8d20-81dc87b7be30.png?v=1775564560","url":"https:\/\/latitudes.online\/products\/je-suis-femme-i-am-woman","provider":"Latitudes Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}