In the manner of a storyteller, Fanny Irina tells stories accompanied by landscapes, characters and hybrid objects. Through materials such as ceramics, pencil, pastel, paint and textiles, the artist questions her metamorphoses and the multiple bodies she experiences. Fanny Irina's work is introspective, at the crossroads of the fantastic and the intimate, and also involves questions of rootedness and the reenchantment of spaces.
"In the landscapes drawn, the characters fully experience their metamorphoses. They are nomads, hermits, their bodies preserved from social judgment. The skin like a fur, in a rest and silence that leaves room for internal languages. My desire to create is driven by the need to explore these in-between sensations and body imprints, to explore their subtleties and origins. The space is strewn with intimate symbols and stories. I create forms that accompany me, transform my shells into fossils, make the relics of what has passed through me."
Fanny Irina started a ceramic work in 2022. Slabs spread out on a table call our gaze, intrigue us. Inspired by a card game, Fanny's works have the same format but compose a game whose rules are unknown. Some are flat, covered with different enamels, shiny or matt, sometimes almost greedy, more or less iridescent. They seem to contain in their power the shapes that we find sculpted on the surface of other cards - or is it at the bottom of them? Animal heads, perhaps totems, a wolf, a fox, a fish, a bear, a lion. They appear or disappear, they do not reveal themselves completely, still protected by their earthen world. The cards are made by hand, the touch allowing the surprise of these almost magical appearances. These cards accompany Fanny like intimate presences. A certain tenderness emerges from them, a disturbance too perhaps, born of the confrontation with these curiously familiar looks. A sort of disquieting strangeness that resonates fully with the artist's other works.
Fanny Irina invites us into her universe to share moments out of time, to meet entities, sometimes close to an original state, which tell us something of the emotions that inhabit the artist and which in return sharpen our attention to the intimate and address our interiority.