Madam Pompadour Modern

With irony, humor, and a keen aesthetic sense, Madam Pompadour Modern reinterprets the archetype of the powerful and decorative woman of the 18th century in a contemporary key. The scene depicts a female figure reclining on a burgundy leather sofa, surrounded by an exuberant floral background, holding a book and a fuchsia feather duster, accessories laden with symbolism.

The model’s gaze—veiled by mirrored sunglasses—prevents us from reading her full expression, but not her attitude: a mixture of disdain, pleasure, and self-awareness. The book, with Nietzsche’s face on the cover, forces us to wonder whether we are witnessing a performative act of intellectual reading or a satire of cultural authority poses. Everything in the image seems to play with this ambiguity.

The choice of clothing, the fuchsia shoes, the turquoise necklace, and the revealing cut of the black ensemble mark a contrast between the empowered body and the aesthetics of the artificial. The feather duster, a banal domestic object, is transformed into a scepter: an instrument of power disguised as frivolity.

This work is part of a visual tradition that ranges from Ingres to Cindy Sherman, from courtly representation to the ironic self-construction of the female subject. At the intersection of art, fashion, and cultural criticism, Madam Pompadour Modern is a resounding statement about the body, the gaze, ornamentation, and intelligence.

Ultimately, the work questions our notions of femininity, power, and representation. What does it mean today to be a muse, a reader, an object, a subject? In this staging, everything is calculated, everything is excess… and everything is an open question.

• Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl
• 60 x 40cm
• Authenticity Certificate numbered and signed by the artist
• 1 of a kind

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ABOUT LADY KUNST

Lady Kunst’s work is a mixture of apathy, courage and desperation. For Lady Kunst, life is a theater in which we are all protagonists. Lady Kunst’s work focuses on political and commercial aspects, making a severe criticism of the current values of society, especially luxury, consumption and advertising.

“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…continue reading