La Cage Quand Limagination Devient Réalité Tondo 2016

Sandra Chevrier created "La Cage Quand Limagination Devient Realité Tondo" using collage and mixed media on a circular surface. The immediate impression is one of juxtaposition: the softness of the woman's face, rendered in delicate tones, is overlaid with the chaotic energy of comic book fragments. Chevrier's superimposition creates a powerful tension. The comic book imagery acts as a mask, obscuring and fragmenting the face, and prompts questions about identity and representation. The circular format, or tondo, traditionally used in Renaissance art, contrasts with the modern pop-cultural elements, destabilizing established art historical meanings and values. The artist's technique invites a semiotic reading, where the comic book panels function as signs that both reveal and conceal aspects of the subject's persona, as well as challenge fixed meanings. This tension between vulnerability and strength, tradition and modernity, encourages ongoing interpretation.