Fat Bat

Virginie Barré

Fat Bat, 2005

Acrylic resin, leather

Virginie Barré combines fashion, pop culture, and social history from a range of eras in ways that are often surprising. Through drawings, collages, and life-size figurative sculptures, she combines the whimsical with the macabre. In Fat Bat, Barré transforms the comic-book character Batman into a humorous hybrid both fantastical and familiar, effectively deflating the power and idealization of the cartoon superhero while inflating his size.