Oda Jaune - Once in a Blue Moon

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Once in a Blue Moon, this publication gathers twenty-odd works that straddle the space between surrealism and expressionism, and whose feigned naivety is often profoundly disturbing.

Deformed pin-ups, drowned children, nightmarish bridal couples… her paintings provide us with troubling scenes of intermingled gentleness and violence. They speak of a total lack of inhibition and demand that same self-abandonment from the viewer. In the words of the artist: “I can perhaps salve the viewer’s fear […] I try to extract what is good, beautiful or even funny from my subjects, laden as they are with fear or prejudice.”