Bronze / 2024 / Fine Art / Other

• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art/Other
• Photographer
  Natalya Nova, United States
• Studio
  Supernova Playroom

DARLING is one of the main characters of Jean Genet's poetic novel "Our Lady of the Flowers" (1943) and a love interest of the daring drag queen Divine.
Genet wrote the novel while passing his sentence in Paris’s Prison de la Santé. It was confiscated by the guards and destroyed. He then recreated the book from memory. I find it profoundly moving that words were so much a part of him that they couldn’t be taken, they were him.
With my series I’m touching on the divine of Jean Genet, and what his language means to me.