ENCEINTE

Adeline de Monseignat
May 30, 2024

The new production by the Monegasque/Dutch artist, based in Mexico City, Adeline de Monseignat proposes a new critical stance from the creator's feminist position.

The Seedscape installation is developed within the orographic limits surrounding Monterrey and is nourished by Monseignat's recent maternal experience. In this sense, the work suggests the protection of the uterus at various levels and from multiple perspectives. In the first instance, through exuberant native vegetation, the artist approaches sculptures related to the procreative female womb, which unfold into seeds containing life; from another place, these structures appear contained and limited by the walls of the museum's outer courtyard. In a broader vision, this landscape, in constant movement, is created concerning the five great mountain ranges surrounding the city, turning concatenated systems into the central disruptive axis of the proposal.

The recurring selection of materials in Adeline's artistic practice, such as marble, gravel, and vegetation, seems to be discursively related to the vulnerability of the human body. Hence, the author has titled this exhibition under the French term Enceinte, which refers to "bringing life inside the womb" and to the space inside a container, in this case, directed towards the heart of the building. Finally, it is important to specify the synergies of layers that stand out in this project: the city, the museum, the sculpture garden, the vegetation, and the seeds – sculptural elements – seem to reinforce the feminist position of Monseignat, who makes this visual universe around human creation.

Taiyana Pimentel