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Te he artists’ work also recounts the development of votive religious practices
and venerations increasingly marked by emotion in the late Middle Ages. Reviving
their functions as art objects, the works evoke the utilitarian uses of past creations as
well as their mystical and magical character.
Borrowing motifs from the medieval period, the artists reinvigorate their interest in
beliefs, fiction, time and the living world.
Thanks to loans from rich heritage collections in the Île-de-France region, a true in-
tergenerational and transhistorical dialogue is established.
The exhibition Berserk & Pyrrhia highlights the circulation of medieval images and
their subsequent appropriation by referencing the nineteenth-century interpretation
of the medieval period, which was more mystical and romantic.
These images, mirroring souls across the centuries, open the doors to a dark and som-
ber journey into an unfulfilled dream of celestial light.
Agnes Scherer
The Guilded Nut
2020
Acrylic painting on canvas
214 x 167 cm