Ingrid Berthon-Moine's artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing, and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences like sexuality, illness, and death. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias. In her piece 'Mauvaise Langue,' she presents a tongue-shaped sculpture adorned with metal spikes. The deliberate use of lighting adds a humorous dimension, playfully revealing aspects of the male anatomy.
Rooted in the experience of inhabiting a female body, Berthon-Moine disrupts idealized femininity, proposing a new language for female subjectivity. Combining the strange and the familiar, her sculptures defy conventional gender binaries with anthropomorphic forms, immersing viewers in a realm of ambiguity and disquieting sexuality, as seen in 'Triple A (Access All Areas),' a sculpture presenting openings and tumescent forms suggestive of erogenous male and female body parts. Through material choices that juxtapose soft and aggressive elements, she challenges binary notions of beauty and repulsion, destabilizing our singular selves. 'Sausage Making' presents a deep red yonic soft sculpture spiked with metal fangs chopping a golden phallus into sausages, transforming the fear of castration into a recipe for something productive, nourishing, and humorous.
Flowers have been a recurring symbol in her drawings alluding to joy and erogenous areas while in recent work, they take a more poignant turn as symbols of illness and fragility. The once sensual and vibrant tendrils of her drawings are now depicted in a muted colour palette and static form resembling lifeless nerve endings. This transition becomes a poignant metaphor for life's transience, particularly during times of bereavement. Her floral sculptures further extend this idea, using plants and flowers as symbols to contemplate on life, death, and metaphysical musings.
Her visceral drawings and sculptures capture the rhythm of life in constant flux, exploring the evolving nature of human identity. By breaking down barriers between self and others, male and female, Berthon-Moine invites us to embrace ambiguity and the blurring of boundaries. In a moment where the modern Western vision of the human being is being challenged, Berthon Moine’s works explore the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses. Her hybrid, manifold subjects signal new subjectivities, hierarchies and anatomies.
Email: ingridbm@btinternet.com - Instagram: @ingridberthonmoine
Education
2017 MA Fine Art – Goldsmiths University of London 2009 MA Photography (Distinction) - London College of Communication Solo Exhibitions
2022, It’s Getting Clawser, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2018, You Tear Us, Kelder Projects, London
Two Persons Exhibitions
2024, Productive Wounds, Ingrid Berthon-Moine & Lana Locke, Somers Gallery, London, UK
2024, In Bits, Ingrid Berthon-Moine & Jennifer Nieuwland, Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK
2022, Hand-Held: Ingrid Berthon-Moine & Holly Stevenson: Itinerant exhibition with guest artists, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024,
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
Radical Residency, Unit 1 Gallery, London
Art on a Postcard, Bomb Factory Foundation, London
2023,
2 FOR 1, Hypha Studios Stratford, London
Recreational Grounds VII, Wendover House, London
Stretch, Somers Gallery, London
Try a little… Tenderness, Liminal Gallery, Margate
Fetish, Mama Art, London
2022,
Open Mic by Abbas Zahedi, Frieze Art Fair, London
Gertrude Presents, Truman Brewery, London
Love, Celebration and the Road Ahead, TJ Boulting, London
Mãe, SP55, São Paulo, Brazil
Mothering, Kupfer Project Space, London
Curated II Womxn, Unit 1 Gallery, London
2021,Faire Corps, Galerie Paris B, Paris
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
Hand-Held, itinerant show, London
Photo London, Somerset House, London
2020,Annual Open Exhibition, Southwark Park Galleries, highly commended by Bedwyr Williams, London
Barbican Art Trust, ArtWorks Project Space, London
Return to The Body, Chalton Gallery, London
SupaStore Academy, Nida Art Colony, Neringa, Lithuania,
2019,Blame The Algorithm, Stadtmuseum München, Germany,
Bethlehem Boys Club 3, Sidney & Matilda Gallery, Sheffield,
Material Gestures, Art Licks Weekend, The Old Police Station, London,
All About You, Koppel Project, London,
We Sing The Body Electric, Gallery 46, London,
2018,ArtWorks Open, ArtWorks Project Space, London,
In Whose Eyes, Beaconsfield Gallery, London,
Solitudes Molles Sous La Lumière Bleue, Espace Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland,
2017, MAFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London,
The Day of The Triffids (Ep 2), News of The World, London,
Playground, Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden,
2016, We All Have a Problem With Representation, The Showroom, London,
No Lifeguard on Duty, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany,
Fragments – On the Fourth Wave, Archive Gallery, London,
2015, Feminist Practice in Dialogue, ICA, London,
Supernormal, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire,
Playground, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden,
Some Like it Wrong, Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, Rome, Italy,
2014,
Space-Time: The Future, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge,
Tulsa Overground Film & Music Festival, Tulsa, USA,
Poster Exchange, MA Curating, Goldsmiths University, London,
Parties Prises, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France,
The Postcard Is a Public Work of Art, X Marks The Bökship, London,
Collections
Birth Rites Collection, British Museum, Jeremy Cooper Postcard Collection, Huma Kabakci, National Irish Visual Arts Library.
Awards, Prizes & Residencies
2024, Radical Residency, Unit 1 Gallery, London
2023, a-n, Artists Bursary, London
2022, 1:1 Fund, Jerwood Award, London
London Bronze Casting Fellowship, London
Fitzrovia Gallery Residency, London
2021, Mark Tanner Award shortlisted, London
Ingram Prize, finalist, London
2019, Barbican Art Trust, Residency winner, selected by Emma Talbot and Tai Shani, London
2018, Bloomberg New Contemporaries shortlisted, London,
2011, Mostyn Open, finalist, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno
Publications
2020, Salon For a Speculative Future, edited by Monika Oechsler and Sharon Kirland, Ma Bibliothèque
2019, Masculing, Femining and Queering, artist publication with the artist Joe Ridgeon
2015, Feminist Practice in Dialogue, artist publication
Selected Bibliography (Articles and Reviews)
2022 The Shock of the Now by Hector Campbell, Issue #61, November
2020 10 Minutes Interview, Open Space Contemporary, December 2020 Artist Profile: Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Wearewia, May2017 Studio Visit: Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Elephant Magazine, September 2017 Eight Artists to Watch: MA and MFA Shows 2017, Elephant Magazine, July2014 Venus in Furs, NY Times T Magazine, Gurley, George, March 2013 Ragnagna Art, Technikart, September2013 Belle Comme Une Paire de Testicules de Marbre, Girard, Quentin, Liberation/Next, July2013 Ancient Greek Crotch Shots: Ingrid Berthon-Moine’s Balls, Vartanian, Hrag, Hyperlallergic, June2012 Studies in the Maternal, Baillie, Rebecca, Birbeck University, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2011 In The Frame: Ingrid Berthon-Moine: Lipstick and Looking Twice, Bitch Media, Polly Allen, November2011 22nd Mostyn Open 2011, a-n, Review, Goddard Tom, June2011 Red is The Colour, Women’s Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Routledge, March2010 Reframing Photography, online selection by Rebekah Modrak, Routledge2010 Interview with artist Ingrid Berthon-Moine, O’Brien, Katie, UK Feminista, September2010 Time at WW Gallery in Hackney, Newman, Martin, Mirror Blog, May2010 Smear It on Your Face, Rub It on Your Body, It’s Time to Start a Menstrual Party!, Docherty, Shannon, CTSJ, Vol. 1, Spring2009 Operation Camouflage Click, Medina, Susana, MA Photography Catalogue2009 It’s in the Blood, Cochrane, Kira, Guardian, OctTalk, Podcast and Curation
2023, Liminal Gallery Podcast with Louise Fitzjohn
2021, Artist Fiction Podcast with Elizabeth Fullerton
2021, Drawing Outside The Lines, talk with Phoebe Sawtell and Radhika Khimji, London Drawing Group, UK2021, Artist Talk, Winchester School of Art, UK2020, Video interview with Hettie Judah for 'Alexis Hunter’s Money Art Sex' exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery2019, Video interview, Tate Shots. Alexis Hunter: ‘We knew we were making history’, Tate, London2019, Barbara Gamper: Womb to Web (human/nonhuman entanglements #2), Kelder, London 2017, Seeing Red, Menstrual Politics and Protest, Courtauld Institute, London 2017, Artist Talk, London College of Communication, London 2016, Student workshop BA photography, London College of Communication, London 2016, Friday Salon, Speeches for Becoming, ICA, UK 2015, We Are Anti-Capiphallism, ICA, London