Faculty of Design
Illustration
Geneviève Groulx
Vanitas
Other
Still-life with a memento mori theme.
“This piece is an observational painting of a collection of items from a cabinet of curiosities. Among the items depicted are a sea shell, a dead/dried blue rose, a skull, an ancient book, an hourglass, and a portrait of Ernest Rutherford, father of nuclear physics. With this dull colour palette and all these old, dead items in presentation, this painting serves as a vanitas, a reminder of the inevitability of change, death, and decay in life.”
Work by
Geneviève Groulx aka. Ève
“I work at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences--of biology and art, of knowledge and imagination, of fact and fiction. A fundamental part of my artistic process consists in observing...” [More]