Peaches and Cream is composed of purposely imperfect copies of ancient and contemporary architectural features subtly combined with details of works in the Museum’s collection and agglomerated in an extravagant pseudo-ruin.
Aesthetically, this composition of disorderly arranged reproductions incorporates the stages of production and imitates tufa in echo of the neoclassical façade. An absent stained-glass window’s luminous reflections painted on the surface and floor of this chaotic relic suggest a momentary beauty in the face of time’s incoherent strata. And, in fact, the title, an expression used to describe a perfect situation, ironises on this unstable assembly of architectural fragments that evokes a world in turmoil and in danger.
A painter and multidisciplinary artist, Michaela Sanson-Braun plays humorously and poetically with references to art history and inspirations drawn from popular culture.
Curated by Marie Dupas, head of the contemporary art collection at the Musée d’arts de Nantes.
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