Chloé TiravyTorera

La torera here proudly dons a costume that men usually seem to give her reluctantly. The sobriety of the decoration contrasts here with the richness of the elements of the jacket, detailed here with dexterity: gilding, pearls, shimmering arabesques, reflections of the purple fabric. The look of this almost androgynous female face seems to invite us to enter a story that has only just begun...

Inspired by the Costume Museum in Madrid, the series of paintings "Costumes for another life" is born from the desire to bring the costumes of the past into contact with the flesh of the living. A work of representation and interpretation, in search of new bodies for these clothes. The "inhabitants" of these clothes, resolutely modern and dissonant, provoke unexpected narratives. Textile and skin cohabit within the same figure, becoming competing protagonists and making each other proud.