Killing Teddy Bears

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Title of the work: Killing Teddy Bears

In Killing Teddy Bears, Jacqueline Delaye ruthlessly blows apart the charade of childhood innocence. The scene, carefully disguised as a fairy tale—prop mushrooms, smiling butterflies, a fantasy forest—is nothing more than a cheap set that crumbles before the artist’s savage gesture: holding the decapitated head of a teddy bear like a war trophy.

There is no nostalgia or tenderness here. There is contained rage, a fierce contempt for the idea that growing up is a neat, almost poetic process. The fur hat blurs the boundaries between girl and predator, while the toy gun, painted in garish colors, becomes an uncomfortable reminder of how early we learn to normalize violence. From the cradle we are trained: smile, obey, shoot.

Delaye not only breaks with fantasy: she guts it with relentless precision. The teddy bear—that ridiculous symbol of prefabricated comfort—is sacrificed in an act that is half performance, half reckoning. The gesture is deliberate: to destroy the illusion of domestic security, to denounce the hypocrisy of a world that venerates childhood while sowing fear and obedience in every game, every story, every glance.

Killing Teddy Bears asks for no permission and seeks no compassion. It is an uncomfortable scene that points the finger: you too learned to love, to possess, and to destroy. It is a reminder that growing up inevitably means betraying who we once were. And that sometimes you have to kill a teddy bear to start looking yourself in the eye.

DESCRIPTION

  • Fine Art
  • Hahnemühle fine art paper
  • 3 of a kind pieces
  • 60cm x 40 cm
  • Limited edition
  • Authenticity Certificate numbered and signed by the artist

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My work is a mixture of apathy, courage and desperation. In order better represent the political issues of the society, I had created the fictional figure of Lady Kunst.

Jacqueline Delaye has a multidisciplinary background based in social studies and arts. She studied Social Anthropology in Mexico city. Cinema and Tv in Barcelona and Art and Culture Management in Paris. She worked as a video artist and documentary filmmaker around Europe.

After living in different countries like USA, England, France, Spain, Italy and México Jacqueline moved to Berlin, Germany her home since 15 years.

in 2019 she moved for 4 years to the archipelago Azores, on the island of Sao Miguel, in order to take the inspiration of nature. Now she came back to the great city of Berlin to keep breathing the inspiration of human society.

I started in the art world when I was 19 years old. I had already taken photography courses and I was amazed by the visual and social part of the city where I lived, Mexico City, full of contrasts in both socioeconomic and visual aspects. I wanted to show the world the reality in which the lower class of Mexicans live, a place between hope and death. For this reason I decided to take the camera as my means of expression. I had the opportunity to work in different commercial audiovisual productions (advertising, independent films).

At the age of 21, I went to the city of Barcelona to do my audiovisual studies where I had the opportunity to be inspired by the best independent filmmakers and artistic currents. My work is a mixture of apathy, courage and desperation. In order better represent the political issues of the society, I had created the fictional figure of Lady Kunst.

For me life is a film in which we are all protagonists.

My work focuses on political, social and commercial aspects. As a Mexican, I could not close my eyes to social injustices and corruption, especially in the area of politics.

Art is revolution

Born: French-Mexican 17.02.1978 Guadalajara, Mexico.
Studies
Art and Culture Management, IESA Paris
Television, Cinema, Video, IDEP Barcelona.
Drawing and Painting in CEAC Barcelona.
Organisation and design of museums and galleries, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Study of art history and evaluation of art works, Casa Lamm, Casa de Cultura Mexico city. Colloquium “A brief history of Goya” Museo Nacional de Arte , Mexico City. photo in the Centro de Cultura Coyoacán.
Publications
2016-2018 Videos Capitalism in German online Magazin Culturmag
2016- Art-book Catalogue first edition.
2007-Vértigo Mexican Magazine 25 / Marzo/ 2007
Exhibitions
House of Cultures of Mexico in Paris,“Les ponts”, Paris 2007
Art Festival Blue-Valentine, Paris Video Video „Sequence“ 2006
Organization in Exhibition Gildo Medina, Paris 2006
Production of 30 videos for the governmental company INFONAVIT, Mexico 2006
Video “Magic Afternoon” of Wolfgang Bauer with Jonathan Meese. Angela Richter, Daniel Richter. Kampenagel theater. Hamburg, Germany 2005
Video “Ralf Metzenmacher” ex boss-Design of the Company PUMA, Bamberg,  Germany. 2005
ETA Hoffmann theater.  Video “Eloisa Está debajo un almendro” from Enrique Gardiel Poncera .Bamberg, Germany 2004
Documentary film about the theater project Magic Afternoon in the Kampenagel theater with artists such as Daniel Richter, Jonathan Messe. Hamburg, Germany. 2004
Artistic video” Where you” in Bamberg, Germany. 2004
Reportage about the theater project “Los Figurantes” in the University of Bamberg.Bamberg, Germany 2003
Documentary film about a handicaps factory “Es gibt nur eine Welt” Kulmbach, Germany. 2003
First edition of Film festival Docupolis in Barcelona, Spain Art video “Auto-Conscience”.2001
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Additional information

Killing Teddy Bears

50x75cm
Limited Edition of 3
Authenticity Certificate numbered and signed by the artist

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