Nina Childress | City of Paris Museum of Modern Art

She proceeds most often from photographs gleaned from the internet. Her very colorful palette, sometimes even fluorescent, allows her to revisit icons of popular culture, like here the idols

of the seventies that are Sylvie Vartan, France Gall and Jane Birkin. By increasing the scale of these images, his portraits become "Big Heads" and lose their portrait quality to

take on a dimension that is both abstract and ironic. They are presented here opposite the works of Sonia and Robert Delaunay who, more than 80 years ago, had already disconcerted their

contemporaries with their energetic use of color.   The Self-portrait clown/flower completes the presentation of this ensemble. A recurring theme in the artist's practice, it was

created during the summer of 2020. The make-up recalls the mask imposed by the sanitary conditions during the pandemic.   The acquisition of the "Big Heads" (Sylvie, France and

Jane) was made possible by the International Committee of Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Since 2014, the Friends of the MAM have created three acquisition committees to serve

the museum: the Committee for Photography, the International Committee and the Committee for Contemporary Creation. Thanks to donations from these committees, major works join the

museum's collections each year.