“The Closed Gardens of the Soul” are a set of “head reliquaries” and an evocation of the practice of dressing skulls by nuns of Cologne from the 12th century, under the visionary inspiration of Elisabeth von Schönau and in the veneration of the cult of Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins.
This ornamental adoration produced a collection of around forty pieces extending into the 18th century.
“The Closed Gardens of the Soul” are tare mannequins exclusively covered in clothes taken from old folk dolls.
These heads question through their foundation as well as through their material the construction of myths, celebratory and fetishistic relationships, individual or collective.
