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Bérangère or the Art of Plastic Surgery ...

Auteur : Ariane | 03-12-2011

The Italians love it, so do I! Because they have a different relationship with life, death, and everyday life where Art and Popularity mixes with great freedom, without taboos. This is why her exhibitions in Naples, Florence, Milan, and at her home were recently featured in Résidence. Hungarian-born, tall and beautiful, her generous and communicative charm reminds me why an encounter with an artist is such a special moment...

A former studio makeup artist, Bérangère discovered her medium late. She uses Photoshop as a true magic wand that transforms and materializes her visions and her feelings into images. With her artistic eye, her models, and her computer, she plays with the living and the inanimate, presenting strength and femininity in each of her works, mixing time periods, and places to oppose tradition with modernity.

Her inspirations are far from the Epinal Prints (popular in France in the 19th Century) that greatly influenced her childhood, maybe too much. But, she still listens to her instincts, inspired by chance encounters, appreciating work with others, or going out on calls, even if it is uncomfortable because she prefers to remain authentic.

Her works are real; nothing is hidden, nothing blurry, literally and figuratively. If at first, they surprise you it is when you look at her approach that it becomes clear. I understand when she says "if I knew how to verbally express myself well, I would not do so in pictures!"

I love her reflections on her website about her series "The Real Life of B.” it is life, seen, lived, digested, assumed, and amused by my little one, shown through the plastic of Ken and Barbie, the mythical and pollutant couple, wishing to blame us since childhood for our differences…

And when we talk, she tells me it is simply her view on the woman of today that she beholds humorously...Her models photographed at scale 1 are all in situation, living their daily lives. They are all sized at 100 X 75 cm, and are produced at a maximum of 3 copies.

As for her creations done for a Florentine museum modeled after the anatomical waxes in the Medici family collection "Eros-Thanatos-Perasma". She interrogates the philosophers who use their pens and she is interested in doctors and anthropologists. Her projects are underway even today. A new exhibition is currently showing in Varese, Italy about the writings entitled "the body" of a student in modern, contemporary philosophy.

Through her work as a photographer – Plastic artist, Berangere offers us a look at the idea of detachment and at the same time the consequence of being ...she blends the image as she blends its values: life-love-death, plastic flesh, true-false, yesterday-today...

On the 4th floor without a lift, "fed up with the stairs!" she shares her small home with her number one fans, her two sons. In every room of her apartment, there are plenty of things to discover: objects, posters, and photos that tell stories or remind her of the sweetness of childhood.

When we bring up her workspace ?
My head is my studio! I need to verbally exchange, encounters nourish me, then I work alone in front of the computer to realize my feelings.

What she likes most about her job is the adventure, the sometimes-surprising results!

What do you think of the woman’s role in Art?
It is crucial!!

The artists that you admire?
Frida Kahlo, Fabio Novembre, Lee Miller, Jean Cocteau, Valie Export, and Lucien Freud

The places you like to go?
Get lost in the small streets, discover artists, enter those boutiques selling small odds and ends, visiting palaces, and observing while drinking coffee on an outdoor terrace.

Your absolutes in décor?
Objects or concepts that give pleasure to the eye and that we can’t stop ourselves from touching.