AQUATOPIA

2008 - 2025

A playful and poetic exploration of the Minoan matrilineal civilization.

SInce 2008, Chabannes has included numerous allusions to octopod “Marine” iconography into her work, evoking the idealistic Minoan society whose emblem was the octopus, a master of camouflage and representational strategies, a mirror of our relationship to illusion and reality.

Plaster sculpture with Christian s sacred objects in a plexiglas box

Plaster sculpture with pin up photographs in a plexiglas box

Bas relief plaster Sculpture of a fossilized octopus

very detailed drawing with an octopus wrapped around a young woman's wrist

large detailed drawing of an octopus wrapping around a bull's horn

Wax sculpture in a large plexiglas box of an octopus swimming in the ocean

Plaster sculpture of a young woman's hands holding a bull's horn

large detailed drawing of an octopus warrping around a young woman's wrist

Ceramic collections - Extracts

hand painted very detailed painting on ceramic with an octopus wrapped around a young woman's wrist

hand painted very detailed gold painting on ceramic with an octopus wrapped around a young woman's wrist

large hand painted gold painting on ceramic of an octopus wrapped around an architectural object

large and very detailed drawing of an octopus wrapped around an architectural structure

large hand painted gold painting on ceramic tiles with an octopus spitting black and blue ink

Large watercolor painting of an octopus wrapping around a young woman's wrist

hand painted very detailed painting on ceramic of an octopus swimming and spitting ink

hand painted very detailed painting on ceramic of an octopus swimming and spitting gold ink

Large watercolor painting of an octopus swimming in the ocean

Large watercolor painting of an octopus swimming in the ocean next to a painting and portrait of a young woman

large hand painted frescoe painting mural of an octopus wrapped around an architectural object