And Ye Shall Be Consumed, 2022
Oil on linen
72 x 60 in.
182.9 x 152.4 cm
182.9 x 152.4 cm
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In Naudline Pierre’s “And Ye Shall Be Consumed”, a luminous figure powerfully engages with numerous winged creatures, whose faces emerge slowly out of the darkness. These angelic forces have human,...
In Naudline Pierre’s “And Ye Shall Be Consumed”, a luminous figure powerfully engages with numerous winged creatures, whose faces emerge slowly out of the darkness. These angelic forces have human, pointedly feminine facial features, but do not possess earthly bodies. Their sense of ephemerality and movement is in stark contrast to the central protagonist, whose corporeal form in shades of yellow grounds the composition and seems to radiate strength and stillness in the midst of activity.
Pierre has noted that she imagines her winged figures to possess divine intelligence. Here, they are witness to the central figure’s engulfment in flames, a phenomenon Pierre is drawn to for its “sense of tension and danger, but also passion.” In Pierre’s iconography, which mines encounters between the earthly and the otherworldly, flames come to represent positive agents of change and transition, to which her figures submit themselves willingly.
Pierre has noted that she imagines her winged figures to possess divine intelligence. Here, they are witness to the central figure’s engulfment in flames, a phenomenon Pierre is drawn to for its “sense of tension and danger, but also passion.” In Pierre’s iconography, which mines encounters between the earthly and the otherworldly, flames come to represent positive agents of change and transition, to which her figures submit themselves willingly.