Opening Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 17 auxpe presence of Nina Childrade and certain artists guest. Since 1980, Nina Childress is carrying out a painting work that, under cover of iconographic heterogence, examine structuring elements of Western popular culture. The representation of the body is always central there, Even when he is addressed in an allusive or abstract manner. However, it is not only the body for itself that is mentioned, But also the body as a tool for representation. Nina Childress works this question by blurring her images or by "badly" repainting her works. She paints celebrities that their hair identifies, Like Patrick Juvet to whom an entire room is devoted. Finally, She uses phosphorescent pigments and plunges certain works into the darkness, which are then transformed under the black light of lamps-horches.

The exhibition at the Chaux-de-Fonds Museum of Fine Arts offers a crossing of the work of Nina Childrade from the angle of the evocation of the body by one of its parts, A part precisely particularly linked to self -representation: hair. The artist applies all the stylistic variety of his painting there. It is thus leaning on a part of the history of the 20th century art which made the representation of the hair an equivalent of the drapes of the Renaissance: the place of a representation of the artist by his style.

Nina Childress was born in 1961 in Pasadena, USA. She lives and works in Paris.

In the company of

To complete the speech of the exhibition, Nina Childress wanted to make her paintings resonate with those of artists she loves and who influenced her work. Thereby, She chose a selection of works BROSS, Hair and hair with precision, obsession, virtuosity or fantasy. These are the works of Sylvie Fanchon, Caroline Tschumi, Franz Gertsch, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Jean-Luc Blanc, as well as Stéphane Zaech.

The author Fabienne Radi is also invited to respond with a literary work to the plastic proposal of Nina Childrade. Thereby, Three unpublished texts on the common capillary passion of the two artists are presented in a micro-publishing offered to the public.