FEMINISM Based in Lyon, street artist Foufounart creates series of vulvas that she sticks in the streets in order to “give back the female sex its place” and ” its legitimacy »
Foufounart, a street artist from Lyon, produces series of vulvas that she sticks in the window. public space in order to “give back to the female sex its place and its legitimacy”. — Foufounart
- Since April 2021, the discreet Marion has become the street artist Foufounart.
- The feminist artist unashamedly creates series of vulvas which she then displays in the streets of Lyon.
- Favoring delicacy over eroticism, the forty-year-old intends to “give the female sex back its place and its legitimacy” and raise awareness.
Behind the artist’s name Foufounart, a part of mystery that she cares about. keep. “”I have plenty of lives to side, immediately attacks with all smiles the sweet Marion, mother and employee in the cultural environment of Lyon. His “little secret garden” which she likes to cultivate in her spare time, her passion is “representing the female sex in the public space”. Create vulvas without complex. Without taboo. But always with great delicacy.
“I don’t work on eroticism,” explains the one who has never had any artistic training. Instead, Marion prefers to sublimate the female genital apparatus by diverting symbols, obsolete objects or old materials. Her vulvas – “unique” made with clay and modeled with clay. hand – are mostly covered with a bucolic pattern. They are then hung in the heart of a porcelain plate, placed at the bottom of a vase, sometimes put under a bell jar or often surrounded by a baroque frame painted with gold. gold leaf. The result is astonishing, captivating.
Create “an effect of surprise”
The objective is to create a contrast, an “surprise effect” in order to bring a different perspective, she continues. “In the distance, we see a work, we guess colors or small flowers. And when you get closer, you discover that it is a vulva in relief,”describes the artist who wanted to “represent the fair sex. minin l` where we’re not expecting it. It’s something beautiful that you don’t have to worry about. to hide. Today, it’s still a taboo subject for many women but there’s nothing to be ashamed of,” she argues.
The “discreet” series. – Foufounart
A feminist but “not an activist”, Marion proudly assumes her approach, that of “giving back to the female sex its place and its legitimacy”. Which sometimes bothers. His first work, stuck in April 2021 in a square in Croix-Rousse – his “”heart district” – has been “slaughtered”, “destroyed with ferocity” after three days. Not enough to discourage the artist, however.
“The goal is not to shock”
“The aim is not to shock but to provoke questions about how we perceive the female body, she replies. In art, in society, in general, the male gender is widely represented. On the other hand, it took until 2017 to see the clitoris appear in school textbooks. It’s pretty crazy when half souls that populate this planet have one. Little girls know how to learn faster. what a penis looks like than their own sex”.
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Aged in the “early 40s” years, the Lyonnaise belongs to “this generation that discovered itself late.” “At home, the subject was particularly taboo. We didn’t talk about sexuality, we never talked to me. Nor are the rules. I didn’t know what it was, she says. I learned it in the school yard through urban legends.”
Behind the artistic approach, the desire to educate and raise awareness. Invited to Exhibiting her latest creations during the street art festival Peinture fraîche, Marion was able to confront the public. Sometimes with a lot of humor. “A gentleman came to see me to congratulate me, she recalls. He said to me: “What is beautiful, but what does it represent?” I replied that it was a vulva, he was quite surprised. and almost embarrassed,” she laughs.