The Graces – Pauline
5 in / 13 cm
Pauline is a representation of the actress Pauline Lapointe, who posed in Janette Bertrand’s TV movie l’Obsession.
Pauline is stretched out on the ground; with her right hand she is pulling the sheet up over her breasts. A pillow under her arm, she is resting her head on her left hand. Confident, she smiles.
Anecdote
In 1997, I got a phone call from Ms. Janette Bertrand, the prolific Quebec writer. She was writing a TV movie on obsession with weight. In the film, a woman on her nth diet meets a sculptor who will help her see her own beauty.
Albert Millaire plays the sculptor and Pauline Lapointe plays the role of the woman tortured by her weight. The sculptor in the story has a predilection for big women.
I produced five sculptures for this movie. I truly wanted to meet this challenge, to finally show that sensuality does not belong only to the skinny.
Pauline is the sculpture on which Albert Millaire was pretending to work in the movie. I made three different clays for the film shoot, each at a successive stage. One clay figure would replace another as the story progressed.
Treatment
Bronze (5in/13cm). The skin is worked with ferric nitrate. The hair is black, the sheet is white and the pillow is blue.
A series of eight and four artist’s proofs.
