Metropoliticoncious Painting & Sculpture by Francesca Lalanne
AXOM Home & Gallery
661 South Ave.
Oct 3, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

“Metropoliticoncious II”, by Miami born / Haitian raised artist Francesca Lalanne, is the sequel to her2006 exhibition at Edgezones Project space in Miami Florida. Lalanne’s new work consists of large sculptures and paintings arranged as an installation to suggest a narrative with in the space. It is Lalanne’s intention to address concerns around issues regarding the exploitation of people and to question the nature of control and freedom. Relating to the concepts of the Docile Bodies in Michel Foucault’s book “Discipline and Punish”, Lalanne metaphorically exemplifies through material and form the subjective nature of our human condition of participation in willing submission, technological revolution, homogeneous compartmentalization, restraint, and humility. The installation adheres to the notion of a society uncontrollably controlled by a system larger, stronger and anonymously detached from humanity for the sake of protection and improvement of the individual for the greater good.

“Particularly with the work I’m doing now, I’m focused on the realm of being controlled by the things we cannot control and the balance between them.” Francesca Lalanne 2014