Cat wife valentine
Artist: Morgane Richer La Flèche
Date: 2023
Medium: Watercolor, gouache and collage on paper
Dimensions: 15” x 12 ¾” (framed)
Artist: Morgane Richer La Flèche
Date: 2023
Medium: Watercolor, gouache and collage on paper
Dimensions: 15” x 12 ¾” (framed)
Artist: Morgane Richer La Flèche
Date: 2023
Medium: Watercolor, gouache and collage on paper
Dimensions: 15” x 12 ¾” (framed)
About the Exhibition
The Cat Wife reimagines a 17th-century French fable to tell a story about the recklessness of desire and the magic of the body. The exhibition is a psychological portrait of the muse in Morgane Richer La Flèche’s works, blending the magical and the mundane. In these works, Richer La Flèche shares a fanged vision of bodily autonomy and female sexuality, reframing contemporary discussions about identity and self-determination. These paintings predominantly feature a woman and a cat together, symbolizing their intertwined nature. What starts as a provocative fantasy turns into a celebration of feminine complexity and possibility.
About the Artist
Morgane Richer La Flèche is a Canadian-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist. A self-taught artist, she works primarily in oil paint, pastels, soft sculpture, and video. She is inspired by the world-building of Florine Stettheimer and Lewis Carroll, the theatrical arts, lyric poetry, french literature, her catholic upbringing, body horror, and the rococo period. Her work is visceral, as in pink for flesh and red for blood, as in decadence of excess but also of decay and decomposition. Whether in paint, pastel or wool felt, her textures are simultaneously viscous and diaphanous. While her paintings are steeped in narrative, she plays with abstraction to create sinister landscapes that are always swirling, deteriorating and melding—a nod to hyperspace, virtual realities, and the architecture of cathedrals arching towards heaven.
