Diving Divine

The exhibition "Diving Divine" by Bettina Samson at Galerie Sultana, Paris, features a series of chamotte stoneware sculptures. These works present hybrid forms that are both organic and mineral, described as biomorphic architectures evoking bodies in transformation. Openings and passages within the sculptures are designed to guide the viewer's gaze, which shifts as one moves around the pieces. The artist's practice is informed by personal experiences with illness and medical procedures, exploring the body as a site of continuous flux between its interior and exterior.

Writer Louise Chennevière notes the intimate and corporeal intensity of the works, stating they convey a range of emotions and physical states. The sculptures in "Diving Divine" engage with the work of artists such as Lucio Fontana, Henry Moore, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and Mika Rottenberg, as well as writers Monique Wittig and Goliarda Sapienza. Further influences include the drawings of Sergei Eisenstein, the biomorphic architecture of Hermann Finsterlin, and research in Gender Cardiology by Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, contributing to a broader reflection on the body's porosity and its relationship to knowledge systems, social norms, and power structures.