Any Barbara - 1 Original drawing - nu 1987 panty

Original micron-scale drawing depicting a fragmented female body, captured in an intimate and suspended pose.
The composition emphasizes volumes, the folds of flesh, and the tension of the gesture, highlighted by a strong contrast between the shadowed areas and the white of the paper.
The stroke is deliberately nervous, sometimes almost brutal, alternating tight hatching with looser lines.
Underwear becomes a fully-fledged graphic element: a dark line that shapes the body, cuts it, and enhances the sensuality of the scene without making it illustrative.
The work plays on the ambiguity between anatomical study and erotic evocation, leaving the viewer with great freedom of interpretation.
Textured paper fully participates in the reading of the drawing, reinforcing the materiality and the physicality of the depicted body.
A one-of-a-kind piece, handmade.

Any Barbara is a French contemporary artist whose work focuses on the representation of the human body through drawing.
Through a direct and instinctive approach, she explores the flesh, posture, and physical presence without idealization, favoring gesture, line, and material.
The drawing is part of the classical tradition of studying the body, while at the same time detaching itself from it through a rougher, more raw and expressive style.
Any Barbara develops a deliberately pared-down body of work, in which the body becomes a territory of emotional exploration rather than a mere aesthetic subject; it is an invitation to pleasure.
Their drawings are unique pieces, handmade, with no reproduction, and intended for the art market and private collection.
She lives and works in Paris, France.