{"product_id":"julien-bonet-glory-kopie","title":"JULIEN BONET - Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTechnique:\u003c\/strong\u003e Promptography on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003e50 x 40 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3 + 1 AP\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024-25\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eSigned, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLovers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Two bodies, indistinguishably entwined, wrapped in a web of straw-colored fibers. No faces, no hands, just a shared, amorphous figure standing in the cornfield like an ancient symbol of fertility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Lovers\"\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on closeness and dissolution: Where does the \"I\" end and the \"you\" begin? In this tangle of bodies and nature, the boundaries between individual and community, between love and dependence, blur. It's an image that simultaneously evokes warmth and confinement—a protective cocoon and a prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Culturally and historically, parallels can be drawn here to harvest customs and fertility rituals in which couples were veiled in grain or straw to celebrate the connection between humanity and nature and safeguard the cycle of life. Bonet transforms this archaic symbolism into a contemporary mythogram: an embrace that depicts not only lovers, but the interconnectedness of all life—in an age of ecological fragility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn the context of the series \u003cem\u003eMaskeraden,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ethe lover\u003c\/em\u003e becomes a counter-image to the figures of fear: it embodies not terror, but intimacy – and raises the question of whether, in a world of crisis, love itself can become the most radical form of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Part of the ongoing series \u003cem\u003eMasquerades\u003c\/em\u003e – contemporary myths between fear, ritual and collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AI EDITION BERLIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55657584263503,"sku":null,"price":900.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2826\/3759\/files\/lovers.jpg?v=1753991899","url":"https:\/\/ai-edition-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/julien-bonet-glory-kopie","provider":"AI - EDITION BERLIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}