28 May 2025
Louise Bonnet Wants You to Feel Her Paintings in Your Bones
In her cartoonish yet sophisticated paintings of people, Louise Bonnet toes lots of lines between familiarity and misrecognition, seduction and ick. Speaking of toes, she is especially skilled at painting big ones, those underappreciated appendages that allow us to stand upright and thus, according to Georges Bataille, be human. Pisser Triptych (2021), which featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale, boasts an overlapping set of feet painted in incongruous scale, as if belonging to different humanoid species: a small set of big toes are jammed into a fleshy, larger pair. In Kneeling Sphinx 2 (2021), clenched, extra long toes indent a squatting woman's rump.
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