Moti Baccanali viscerali

For this exhibition, the artist explored ancient Dionysian celebrations. God of festivity and wine in Greek mythology, Dionysus (or Bacchus in Roman mythology) is an ambivalent figure—half-masculine, half-feminine—often associated with intoxication, excess, emotion, eroticism, and even self-abandonment.Echoing the nature of wine and water, Beatrice Celli presents fluid, gestating forms—both joyful and uncanny, human and animal. The artist seeks to express what she calls “Dionysian energy as a force of reconciliation between the self and the universe, the inner and the outer, the ephemeral and the eternal.”

Here, through watercolor that blurs the boundaries of drawing, chimeric figures seem to embody the effervescence sparked by emotional stirrings and the chaos of celebration. They invite philosophical reflection, creating bridges between the material world and the realm of spirits.

Curator Grégoire Prangé and Ninon Duhamel