PM GALLERY - « Les Monstres tendres »

Borrowed from the world of Catherine Gran, of which five paintings form the heart of the journey, “Les Monstres doux” brings together artists of different generations around the same fascination for metamorphosis and hybridization.

From the fantastic figures of surrealism to contemporary creatures, the works presented shake up forms and conventions. Paintings, sculptures, lamps and unusual objects compose a universe where bodies recompose, objects come to life and the boundaries between the human, the animal and the imaginary are erased.

But behind their extravagant appearances, these monsters also tell something deeply human. Sometimes worrying, sometimes tender, they question our relationship to difference, imperfection and our own frailties. Far from representing only the strange or frightening, they become figures that we can identify with, as so many mirrors of our contradictions and our humanity.