by Cecile Plaisance
Smoking Cornette Anouchka
Artist: Cécile Plaisance
Material: Lenticular print framed with museum glass
Size (small): 57 cm W x 70 cm H × 5 cm D (22 1/5 × 28 × 2 in)
Size (medium): 95 cm W x 125 cm H × 5 cm D (37 2/5 x 49 1/5 × 2 in)
Size (large): 124 cm W x 165 cm H × 5 cm D (49 × 65 x 2 in)
Series: Anouchka & Claudia 2026
Smoking Cornette (Anouchka) is pure Plaisance: glamorous, postmodern, and unapologetically theatrical. At first glance, the figure appears as a stylised nun, crisp white cornette framing a composed face, rosary beads and cross falling like couture jewellery, a cigarette held with effortless nonchalance. Then, as the image shifts, the lenticular transformation delivers its signature twist: the habit slips away to reveal the body beneath, and the work pivots from devotional icon to fashion-editorial provocation.
The tension is the point. Plaisance collapses sacred symbolism and pop seduction into a single, flickering persona, part Madonna, part muse, part satire. The black void behind her reads like a stage, forcing the viewer to confront their own assumptions about modesty, power, and spectacle. With its crisp styling and cinematic reveal, Smoking Cornette (Anouchka) becomes a statement piece about performance and identity, where holiness, glamour and rebellion occupy the same frame.
Size: large
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