Jeanne d’Arc– Artwork
Wool, Velvet, 30 × 27 × 18 cm, 2026.
The strange softness radiating from a tale of violence
Jeanne d’Arc remains one of the most enduring female archetypes in European history because she united vision, faith, political force, and physical courage in a world that had no place for a young woman at the center of war. A peasant girl who led armies, altered the course of the Hundred Years’ War, and was later trialed and executed, she still stands as a figure of radical conviction: a woman who moved history because she trusted her inner authority more than the laws meant to silence her.
In this life-size felted portrait, that force appears through a striking contradiction. The form recalls the hardness of a knight’s helmet and the violence of battle, while the bruised skin speaks of suffering, endurance, and bodily cost; yet all of it is rendered in soft felt, a material of care, intimacy, and vulnerability. That tension gives the work its charge: Jeanne d’Arc appears here not only as warrior, but as a female heroine whose strength was never separate from fragility.
“Jeanne d’Arc endures because she entered the machinery of war with vision, conviction, and a courage that history could neither contain nor erase.”
