a matter of time

While former pieces show the same ambiguity between strength and fragility, a new element appears in her approach to the masculine: conquer. All of Cotterli’s sculptures in the exhibition cite stories in Christian iconography: Saint Sebastian, Saint John the Baptist or Holofernes. The male body is being wounded or slaughtered.(…) The ambiguity between violence and caress is a constant characteristic of her production. The lightness of the material and the moulding through the artist’s hands suggest empathy as opposed to the brutal depiction.

Christina-Marie Lümen-