Ben & Sara proposent une réinterprétation photographique des tapisseries de La Dame à la licorne du Musée de Cluny.
Leur œuvre met en scène le parcours initiatique de la Dame, à travers une allégorie des cinq sens. Guidée par sa suivante, une licorne et un lion, elle surmonte des épreuves pour se découvrir et transmettre son savoir.
Inspirés par la peinture classique, le théâtre et le cinéma, les artistes offrent une vision personnelle de cette figure emblématique. Ils explorent les étapes de sa transformation, de l'éveil des sens à l'épanouissement personnel et à la transmission. L'évolution de sa tenue et de ses bijoux symbolise ce cheminement intérieur.
L'œuvre dialogue avec les époques, intégrant des références à la peinture flamande et à la photographie contemporaine. Ben & Sara proposent une relecture moderne d'un récit intemporel, explorant les thèmes de la découverte de soi et de la transmission.
La Dame à la Licorne
The Lady and
the Unicorn
The artist duo, Ben & Sara, reinterprets the famous tapestries of the Cluny Museum in a contemporary way, illustrating the Lady's initiatory path with a series of photographic paintings, portraits and still lifes.
Through an allegory of the five senses, and surrounded by her companion, a unicorn and a lion, the Lady goes through the different trials that carry her, until she discovers herself. She can then transmit and pass the baton to the next person. A universal message that the duo wanted to highlight.
Inspired by classical painting, theatre and cinema, Ben & Sara first wanted to tell a story. If there are many interpretations of The Lady and the Unicorn, Ben & Sara have found theirs. The story of a woman who is going to get have something click (Touch); get to work (Smell); come to like what she does (Taste); find harmony (hearing); . But the path is never linear, she will doubt, look within herself (The view); then find herself and transmit, pass the baton to her next, who herself - we imagine - will go through these same stages (At my sole desire).
Picture by picture, the Lady goes from darkness to light. The colors of her outfit and her jewelry - necklace that she ultimately passes on to her next - mark the different stages of her inner transformation: from black, to white, to orange, to red, to multi-colored and finally so.
And since The Lady and the Unicorn comes to us from the Renaissance, Ben & Sara wanted her to take a journey through time. From a nod to Flemish painting to contemporary advertising photography, the protagonists travel through different eras up to us.