Fées

This series of paintings was created as part of the Abracadabra creative residency in Riga, at Saint-Pierre de Trivisy in South-West France.

Inspired by the imagery of Cicely Mary Barker, Margaux Fontaine adopts the figure of the fairy as a symbol of life, the microscopic, the invisible, the marginal. Armed with pruning hooks like magic wands, Margaux Fontaine’s fairies use these tools of resistance and re-enchantment to oppose patriarchal capitalism, symbolized by the weapons of the modern machine.

This series echoes the Fadas publication (from the Occitan fadat (“touched by fairies, crazy, foolish”) and poses the question in a visual battle, of the place of madness, or stupidity.

See the Fadas publication by Margaux Fontaine.