A clinical psychologist, Jacqueline Pariente later turned to artistic research centered on the face. Like Colette, “the human face was my great landscape.” As a teenager, she drew it; as an adult, she modeled and sculpted it, recognizing in it an inexhaustible territory to explore. In clay, in stone, fragmented, divided, striated, faceted, combined, A clinical psychologist, Jacqueline Pariente later turned to artistic research centered on the face. Like Colette, “the human face was my great landscape.” As a teenager, she drew it; as an adult, she modeled and sculpted it, recognizing in it an inexhaustible territory to explore. In clay, in stone, fragmented, divided, striated, faceted, combined, it becomes a metaphor for our multiple identities, whose animating movement she tries to capture, glimpsing plurality within apparent unity.
Source: Ville de Nice