Mini-documentaries
Lady Butterfly, Ambassador of the International Organization of Merit presents on the occasion of the Closing of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, her creation: "Torch of Love, Solidarity and Peace".
Lady Butterfly - Solo Exhibition, Rue de Seine, Paris - Dec. 2022
Lady Butterfly at the Grand Palais Éphémère - Feb. 2022
Lady Butterfly exhibits at the Carrousel du Louvre - Apr. 2022
Lady Butterfly in her studio in Dordogne, France.
Lady Butterfly at the Cosy Club, Champs d’Elysées, Paris.
Lady Butterfly in Paris
Artistic Approach
It is in 2012 in the outskirts of London that the artist Lady Butterfly stumbles upon the most beautiful broken ceramic tiles, thrown there despairingly into the world of industrial waste, amongst cigarette butts and coffee cups. At that moment she falls in love with the impalpable that the broken tiles give her a glimpse of.
And what if these abandoned objects had something to remind us of our relationship with the sacred?
The artist decides to rescue them and dust them off to preserve their “soul”. There begins a work of breathing life back into discarded objects. Of expressing the sacred.
From that moment forth, Lady Butterfly integrates recovered materials into her sculptures. The use of mosaic and glass fusing allows her to reveal by relief, transparency, shine and durability the eternal expression of preciousness. She brutally smashes the glass with a hammer to reduce it into particles before melting them. In the image of the Phoenix who is reborn from its ashes, the alchemical process of breaking down material allows here for the extraction of its spirit.
The artist categorises her artworks as timeless catalysts for transmutation beyond limitation. These tools diffuse an encoded language bringing us back to our potential, the truth of who we really are, allowing us to transcend to the divine. It is a question of the rebirth of the unlimited sacred within us.
In 2021, Lady Butterfly is struck by the intuition that the Eiffel Tower is suffering. “My Dream” - a homage to the Eiffel Tower - marks the beginning of the artists awareness of the power of her creations as activators. Could their role as catalysts be to connect the totality of existence back to itself?
How does one remind us that the divine is everywhere and includes the parts of ourselves we have rejected?
Bio
Lady Butterfly is especially known for her sculptures in noble recycled materials. At the age of eleven she throws herself headlong into oil painting, making her own supports using recycled agricultural materials found on the farm.
Her quest is for a world beyond suffering, fuelled by the fundamental question haunting her: Why are we here? What is the purpose of life?
Later in adulthood, her soul is drowning in the abyss of large corporations experimenting with ego-centrism, consumption, domination and submission. There she loses her passion for life and takes a radical dive into the unknown to find it.
From 2005, her creativity returns with brilliance, pushing her to create a series of oil paintings “The light at the end of the tunnel” in which her quest is the excavation of her soul, her truth.
In 2012, Lady Butterfly spots a hint of the sacred whilst peering into an industrial waste container filled with broken tiles.
From this moment on, she transforms noble recycled materials such as glass, ceramic and mirror to create timeless and durable sculptures through which the sacred can express itself.
Artist's Story
I am making my first wall sculpture outside London. The most beautiful materials have poured my way. What luck I have! This piece has the potential to be sensational. Like nothing I've ever seen. Mirror. Stone. Tile. And the most beautiful glass tiles. They're divine. I'm so passionate about it. I never thought I could feel so much passion. I've waited my whole life for this.
I mark the circle with a pencil and string. I start gluing the glass mosaic tiles. It's like walking on a tightrope. The stress. The excitement. I can barely breathe.
Mike comes home from work. He looks at what I did and cries. "My God, you're so talented!" he says. "Really" I wonder? It seems pretty basic. He should get out more often to see a little more, I think to myself!
I glue the "Crystal Ball" in the center. I apply the pebbles, then the mirror. Then it's the tiles on the outside. Then I just have to apply the grout. No idea how it's going to work. I put it everywhere on the mirror and tiles. The piece looks like a complete mess now! I have to clean it all up. Oh my! The shine is coming back little by little. What a relief!
The artwork is finally finished! But, it's hard to see what it really looks like in horizontal position. Now that I'm done, I'm really disappointed with the result! This is such a let down! I put everything in it! Everything! With all this beautiful material, all this potential, all this passion, was this really the best I could do? Go to the full story...