L’enfant abrité H.171cm PARVINE CURIE

Signed and numbered lower on the right side « P.Curie»

“When I discovered sculpture, I found a kind of strength that pushed me to define a form that is close to a “mother compartment”, both architecture and character. I don’t do abstract sculpture. I have always looked for the human in sculpture”.

Parvine Curie, interviews with Scarlett Reliquet.

The works of Parvine Curie bear two essences, that of monumentality and intimacy. They impose themselves by shapes that attract us and reassure us. If her practice of sculpture has evolved during her rich life of travels and discoveries, she has never ceased to incarnate her great sensibility as a woman and a mother. It is not by accident that many of her works integrate this theme. Theses mothers are real cabin-ships that symbolise a transcended mother, powerful and protecting.

In the work Sheltered child (L’enfant abrité) we can particularly find this strength. Her keenness for slender forms brings us to mind a refuge as well as the reassuring comfort of a united family, and we can’t help to have a moving thought for her son, the poet David Martí who died in 2007. In this work, the sculptor transcribes a powerful and infinite love.