Prune Nourry Global Art Project
Born in Paris in 1985, Prune Nourry lives and works between New York and Paris. A 2006 graduate of the École Boulle in wood sculpture, she is represented by galerie Templon (Paris, Brussels, New York City). The artist raises ethical questions linked to the notion of balance in the broadest sense: the body and its healing process, demographic imbalance due to gender selection and scientific aberrations, ecosystems, and the interdependence between living species.
The artworks she produces combine sculpture, installation, and performance, and are often the object of rituals, sometimes involving burial or disappearance, which she documents through photography and video. They refer to the collective unconscious through foundational myths, highlighting what unites us rather than what divides us. Prune Nourry’s work is geographically and temporally contextualized through investigations that draw on disciplines outside the field of art. Indeed, her international projects stem from encounters with specialists such as geneticists, sociologists, anthropologists, or archaeologists, who, like the artist, are “guided” by serendipity, or the art of making a discovery by chance while researching another subject. Clay, her favorite material, is at the heart of her practice, her anchor. She also collaborates with numerous artisans, enabling her to explore other materials and new techniques. The year 2016 marked a turning point in her personal and artistic journey when she learned, at the age of thirty-one, that she had breast cancer.
Prune Nourry founded the Catharsis Arts Foundation with Claude Grunitzky in 2024 with the aim of amplifying the voices of women and girls, sharing their stories through collaborative sculpture projects.
Born in Paris in 1985, Prune Nourry lives and works between New York and Paris. A 2006 graduate of the École Boulle in wood sculpture, she is represented by galerie Templon (Paris, Brussels, New York City). The artist raises ethical questions linked to the notion of balance in the broadest sense: the body and its healing process, demographic imbalance due to gender selection and scientific aberrations, ecosystems, and the interdependence between living species.
The artworks she produces combine sculpture, installation, and performance, and are often the object of rituals, sometimes involving burial or disappearance, which she documents through photography and video. They refer to the collective unconscious through foundational myths, highlighting what unites us rather than what divides us. Prune Nourry’s work is geographically and temporally contextualized through investigations that draw on disciplines outside the field of art. Indeed, her international projects stem from encounters with specialists such as geneticists, sociologists, anthropologists, or archaeologists, who, like the artist, are “guided” by serendipity, or the art of making a discovery by chance while researching another subject. Clay, her favorite material, is at the heart of her practice, her anchor. She also collaborates with numerous artisans, enabling her to explore other materials and new techniques. The year 2016 marked a turning point in her personal and artistic journey when she learned, at the age of thirty-one, that she had breast cancer.
Prune Nourry founded the Catharsis Arts Foundation with Claude Grunitzky in 2024 with the aim of amplifying the voices of women and girls, sharing their stories through collaborative sculpture projects.