Bondage & Freedom

Image 1 - Small Paper 2003 BAF, JP Sergent — Bondage and Freedom, 2003, Hand silkscreen on B.F.K. Rives paper, 10x10''

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Image 3 - Small Paper 2003 BAF, JP Sergent — Bondage and Freedom, 2003, Hand silkscreen on B.F.K. Rives paper, 10x10''

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Bondage & Freedom

June, 2002, NY

"Bondage and freedom" are my for-last prints realized in September 2003 at my Long Island City, New York studio. It is printed mainly in monotype and 10 editions of 5 prints, acrylic silkscreened on B.F.K. Rives paper 10"x10". It have been shown at gallery 138, New York, in November 2005, and also available at my new studio in Besançon, France.

This magic moment when horrible suffering transforms itself into an ocean of pleasure.

The images of Bondage & Freedom are a perfect metaphor of the current human condition. Man has invented social systems that exceed human measure and crush individuals in an infernal kaleidoscopic spiral. Every human being is a slave, and this outrageous craziness is that of the Marquis de Sade and the French Revolution, when life was so fragile, so violent, so hazardous. It is anti-life, anti-love and the roaring violence of life. The body is tied up: submissive, imprisoned, mutilated in social, monetary, ideological, environmental, terrorist and religious shackles, where the only escape is climax: the transmutation of pain into pleasure... Read the Full text