An exhibition catalogue was created at the request of the galerie Daniel Templon by Communic’Art for the first exhibition in France of the artist Oda Jaune.

At only 29 years, Oda Jaune develops a unique world, mixing a dreamlike atmosphere, influences of surrealist iconography retro, social realism, reminiscence of Hollywood films, advertising…

Born in 1979 in Sofia, Oda Jaune arrived in Germany when she was a teenager. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, where she was student of the painter Jörg Immendorff.

The work, very personal and unusually mature, explores a strange world where people, objects, unidentified shapes evolve in poetic and disturbing scenes.

Periodically, an ambiguous body -heart, a piece of flesh or tongue- is making an unexpected appearance, reinforcing a sense of sensuality, but also of strangeness, close to fantastic.

“At first glance, Catherine Millet said in the introduction to the catalog, there is nothing to disturb the harmony of his compositions, and must detach themselves from their peaceful atmosphere in getting the monstrosity of this gigantic stained finger just at the of a human torso, in line with both legs above where busy a beautician applied. To appear in the foreground of that picture, a heart to live amidst a bouquet of roses. ”

The artist constructed her paintings as a film script like the old masters, from Baroque mannerism. The themes are borrowed from a close environment: memories, readings, images seen on the Internet.

After several years in Düsseldorf, Oda Jaune chose to settle in Paris in 2008.

She has exhibited at the Kunsthalle Koblenz (2004) and the Fondazione Mudima of Milan (2007).

She has participated in many group exhibitions at the White Space Gallery in Beijing (2003), Küpperssmühle Museum in Duisburg (2007) and the 11th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura in Venice (2008).