Alexandrine Desbrugères – Rockus Dei
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Alexandrine Desbrugères is a French contemporary artist, designer and former art director in communications agencies.
Always drawn to Christian iconography, she created Rockus Dei and invented her own religion and its prophets, guitar gods and mythical singers.
ROCKUS DEI revisits the emblematic object of worship of the Christian faith, its talisman: the crucifix. Created from old crucifixes, these icons become contemporary objects of worship. Painted and placed in frames, under globes or simply standing on their pedestals, the Rockus Dei belong in their own right in the cabinets of curiosities. Each of these works is unique.
Alongside her ROCKUS DEI project, she has had a visceral love for small objects from the back of drawers since childhood: spools of thread, playing dice, jacks, pious medals, crucifixes, baby teeth and other curiosities become treasures to be sanctified.
Her EX-VOTOS are like your Grandma meets Sid Vicious, like What’s the Fuck! placemats. Fascinated by religious scenes and ex-votos, she worships Frida Kahlo.
Always drawn to Christian iconography, she created Rockus Dei and invented her own religion and its prophets, guitar gods and mythical singers.
ROCKUS DEI revisits the emblematic object of worship of the Christian faith, its talisman: the crucifix. Created from old crucifixes, these icons become contemporary objects of worship. Painted and placed in frames, under globes or simply standing on their pedestals, the Rockus Dei belong in their own right in the cabinets of curiosities. Each of these works is unique.
Alongside her ROCKUS DEI project, she has had a visceral love for small objects from the back of drawers since childhood: spools of thread, playing dice, jacks, pious medals, crucifixes, baby teeth and other curiosities become treasures to be sanctified.
Her EX-VOTOS are like your Grandma meets Sid Vicious, like What’s the Fuck! placemats. Fascinated by religious scenes and ex-votos, she worships Frida Kahlo.
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I'm fascinated by everything to do with human or animal anatomy. Organic matter, the fragility of flesh and spirit, fragments of ourselves are my playgrounds in the manner of a Christian Boltanski or an Annette Messager. I've been living in Saint-Jean-de-Monts in the Vendée for the last 5 years; the seaside allows my mind to escape and create by getting lost in these changing, definitively mystical skies.
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