Les Avatars de Vénus

The process leading to the making of the filminstallation Les Avatars de Vénus goes back thirty years to the thousands of images I began picking up from news stands bookshops libraries museums flea markets as I travelled around the world drawing photographing analyzing filming and remembering what I saw Finally I collected a giant imagebank of different incarnations of Venus spreading across time and space coming from all continents all civilizations all epochs respecting the logic of each one of them regardless of the arbitrary ideological hierarchy established by academicians between High Art and Low Art I chose to mix art history and popular imagery Renaissance iconography and commercial advertisements religious propaganda and common pornographic icons movie stars and classical as well as nonoccidental sculpture all fetishes being complementary