BERIT
BERIT Hildre was born in 1964 in Norway. A self-taught sculptor and painter, she transforms malleable earth into magic.
The human in the spiritual sense is the signature of Hildre BERIT. The bodies of children, pensive women, lost in eternity, are part of her repertoire.
Without ever asking anything of institutions, she shapes matter to offer us a unique journey into the innocent and enchanting universe of her work. Straight out of fairy tales, her sculptures question us about the vulnerability of a child's body, about their undeniable presence.
By agreeing to grow up, to grow old, we also agree that it is possible to rediscover these characteristics. "There is always something of childhood left, always..." are the words of Marguerite Duras, which take on their full meaning when evoking the work of BERIT.
BERIT says of her little girls "My little girls are like flowers; fragile daisies in the hollow of a vallo, wonderfully fresh and beautiful, vulnerable, at the mercy of so many things that can in an instant annihilate this little miracle; a daisy, a little girl. Little girls believe in angels, fairies and trolls, princes and magicians. They know that everything is alive. Little girls collect all sorts of precious things; bizarre pebbles, angel feathers, hazelnuts fallen from a tree, small empty boxes and secrets in the palm of their hand."
The artist's works
