Adeline de Monseignat | Mention | White Hot Magazine

KAREN MOE, White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, March 2, 2025

We must give them our silence: Six Women Artists, Zona Maco 2025

 

We must turn away
and no matter how hard, we must give them our silence.
Without attention, they deflate, they show their nil.
We then will be retained; the spirit returned;
the body, gently, held.
- Catherine Owen

At a time when narcissism has been ramped up to a deafening roar, when men’s names bombard our homes beyond their borders, uninvited, laying claim to our countries; when men who care more about imposing their manifest destiny on Mars than cleaning up the messes they have made on earth are being listened to en masse; when men who, supported by their damaged followers who find their truth on Fox News, have bound attempts at liberty in chains, what happens when we only give them our silence? What happens if we carry on as before, turn away, and take control with our indifference?

 
Represented by Cadogan Gallery, London/Mexico City residing sculptor Adeline de Monseignat’s artwork also follows the nature muse. For her, nature is the origin that enlivens the artwork. Monseignat studies seeds, be they of plant or of body. Her Cantera and bronze sculpture is a community of Sticky Seeds, with stone seeds held together by their patinated pods like a life-giving—as opposed to plague associated—version of Ring-Around-the-Rosie. One can feel the movement of these cusps of life that animate metal and stone as a community of transience. Yet, even though the volcanic specked seeds and the pristine green pods fit together with the inevitability of a puzzle, there is no perfection in the of sense completion. Sticky Seeds dances the unity of flux and change.
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