Mater Earth
Prune Nourry foregrounds the innate beauty and resilience of female anatomy in Mater Earth.
Created in partnership with Château La Coste, the edition reimagines the artist’s 27 metre-long sculpture at...
Prune Nourry foregrounds the innate beauty and resilience of female anatomy in Mater Earth.
Created in partnership with Château La Coste, the edition reimagines the artist’s 27 metre-long sculpture at the Aix-en-Provence sculpture park as a 6-colour greyscale lithograph. The subject is inspired by the artist’s recollection of her pregnant friend bathing in goat’s milk. Produced at historic Parisian print house, Idem - used by Matisse, Miró, Picasso and Chagall - each print from the edition has been manually pressed using 19th century machinery before being hand-cut by the artist.
The lithographic process creates delicate yet unpredictable patterns, reminiscent of veins on human skin or cracks in the Earth’s surface. A minimal composition places focus on the pregnant body, while grey ink recalls the raw earth bricks used in Prune’s colossal sculpture.