Daniel Mangin

The Power of unrecognized Needs

Open your mind series

France

2018

Oil on canvas

73x60 cm

Artist about this artwork You all know that need we sometimes have to accomplish something, to say something, in short, to adopt a completely unpredictable behavior outside our usual frame of reference? These are secret needs, subterranean forces that compel us when they have an absolute need to express themselves. Here, we could be in a jungle. But a seal (what is it doing here?) seems to be protecting an egg. Frustrated desire for motherhood? We will never know, because seals cannot read or write, and do not express themselves grammatically for our ears.