One fun fact about me is that there is a pit in the forest. It is a part of me. I do not know where my reflection ends and I begin and I am so entwined with its murky waters I have begun to wonder if I am human at all, or if I am some creation of mud and wood given life against its will. When I die look for me in the pit. I will be in there, watching you.
Mimi (Marie) Parent was born in Quebec, Canada. Between 1942 and 1947 she studied painting at the Ecole des Beau Arts Montréal. There she met he
r future husband Jean Benoît the surre alist sculptor. Dis
illusioned with the conservative nature of the Canadian culture of that time, she and her
husband moved to Paris in 1948. There she created collages, assemblag es, inlays, embroidery and objects. They came to know Andre Breton and part icipated in the surrealist a ctivities until the diss
olution of the Paris Surrealist group a few years after the death of Breton.
She took part in the exposition EROS, which
was held from December 1959 to Feb. ruary. For EROS, Mimi Parent designed the Crypt of fetishism, together with boxes of black fur in which images of Breton
and Meret Oppenheim were placed.
She also collaborated with Jean Ben oît to create a theatrical event of the Execution of the will of the
Marquis de Sade. Dressed in costumes, carrying accessories which symbolize Eros and Thanatos, Benoît appeared with red iron letters 'SADE' on his chest. This ceremony established Mimi Parent and Jean Benoît at the cen ter of the Parisian surrealist group.
She was par
ticularly drawn to create shadow - boxes, shallow frames wit hin which she created a paintin g and then laid o n top various elements in relief. In these boxes,
Parent would include figure s and elements rela ting to myth ology, folklore, and her imagination . Parent often incorporated materials such as human hair in her art objects .
From 1960 onwards
she was involved in many international exhibitions.
She had many solo exhibitions throughout her life (Gale rie André-Francois Petit, Paris, 1984; Muse um Bochum, 1984; Noyers-sur-Serein, 1992) and was active as a n artist until
the end of her days.
(https://surrealism.website/Mimi%20Parent.html)
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A review by Régis Tremblay of the 2004 retro spective exhibition of Parent and Benoît's work, held in Montreal, observes that:
"Even if their work is always s trange, or worrying, Mimi Parent and Jean Benoît have a light ness,
a laughing humour and a youth rare for the
octogenarians that th ey are."
Marie "Mimi" Parent: born Mon treal, Canada, 8 Septe mber 1924;
Married Jean Benoît, 1948; died Switzerla nd, 14 June 2005.
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