J-ANimal 3

Alet Pilon

Mixed media sculpture, 2017.

Part of Jan Jansen Shoe Treasures, Jan Jansen original shoes 1990’s.

Pilon had experimented with horsehair before. For Pilon’s sculptures often evoke contradictory emotions. Some feature humanoid figures bound together and lacking features and limbs. Others depict forms wrapped in a blanket where only wings, antlers or hooves are visible. Her artwork handles power and impotence, truth and falsehood, fantasy and reality, real and unreal.

Material: vintage shoes and horse hair.
Dimensions: 18 x 90 x 15 cm.

© Jan Jansen Shoe Treasures, photo by Charlotte Visser.


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