Valérie Hadida

[Dee]

Valérie Hadida





Valérie Hadida is a contemporary French sculptor and painter, working mainly in Bronze and clay. This set of sculptures is from Les "petites bonnes femmes"/ The Little Women series, which has been described by critics as a “poetic encounter….[meant] to make us travel the path of women from adolescence to maturity and through the various emotions and moods that drive these generations of women".


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[Dee]

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[Dee]

Love them all, but this might be my favourite, such a beautiful composition. The delicacy of her hand and arm! It reminds me of Herakut's figures with the animal headdresses, very similar sentiment. Inside the animal costume is a brave little soul taking strength from the spirit of the animal.

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[Moonchime]

Wonderful pieces Dee. I just love the way she depicts hair - it's so animated and full of its own life and yet the rest of the figure is so delicate.
Yes - Herakut absolutely - in fact for a moment I wondered whether they were one and the same person.

[Lori]

Aren't these simply splendid? Such a fresh take! I too stopped in my tracks at the animal costume selection, but I love the wild spirit that runs throughout with the crazy fun hair and then the occasional surprise of fine detail fabric and smooth slender forms. Ms. Hadida is so very talented. I love every piece. The sisters or friends hugging is sweet. I like how each sculpture looks out nearly frankly at the viewer. It occurs to me we often are presented with a certain presupposed story with many women depicted in art. One may have a book, another is protecting a child, and then another is upholding some value. All of that is fine and well, but I like how these incredible rather rough sculptures really just scream of their own little personhood - of humans existing in life, together or separately. The very light whimsy - I suppose I would call this 'serious whimsy' - is not to the extent it takes this work into a lesser place amongst the many.

I think I'm in love....

[Dee]

I'm delighted to revisit here, pulled in by your new post, Mz L. Glad to hear both you and Moonchime are falling for these little figurines, perhaps they remind us of our adolescence, but I think it's more like possible embodiments of our very souls at times?

I've just dived into the internet to find some more of Hadida's work...

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