Bigoted Head

Bigoted Head – Alain Monvoisin

With Tête bigote , Alain Monvoisin orchestrates a quasi-liturgical staging, where the head – green, floating, enigmatic – rises above a procession of candles. The whole evokes a mystical ritual, a silent ceremony where faith and superstition merge.

The dark hexagon that dominates the composition seems like an open door to infinity, an abstract stained glass window where celestial torments are unleashed. Around it, golden dots float like stars or suspended blessings. Below, the rigor of the aligned candles and architectural forms contrasts with the flexibility of the head, which seems to evaporate at its lower end, as if it were slowly burning.

Monvoisin plays here with the codes of sacredness and mystery. Is this anonymous head in adoration? Waiting for a revelation? Or a prisoner of a dogma? Tête bigote questions the place of the individual in the face of his beliefs, in a subtle balance between irony and spirituality, between the sacred and the absurd.