The Feast of Fools: Eleanor Johnson

Eleanor Johnson’s latest series of works exhibited in ‘The Feast of Fools’ explores the concepts of excess, power and overindulgence in contemporary society. Here, Johnson uses Marco Ferrari’s 1973 film 'La Grande Bouffe' as a point of departure for her artistic enquiry. Reflecting on the satirical and pungent nature of the movie, Johnson approaches profound and unsettling subjects through a soft humorous lens. This is achieved by incorporating into her complex and multilayered canvases elements of the ‘Carnivalesque’, a literary theory by Mikhail Bakhtin that often informs Johnson’s practice.