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CLAUDE JAMMET | Conference
May 30 – Jun 28, 2025
CLAUDE JAMMET | Conference
30 May – 28 June 2025
For her third solo exhibition with Everard Read London, Claude Jammet focuses her attention on a collection of extraordinary birds, exquisitely rendered in oil paint on paper, mounted on canvas.
The inspiration for this new body of work came, in part, from Jammet’s reading of The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr), a 12th-century Sufi allegorical poem. The birds in the poem are on a quest to find their ideal leader and the poem is concerned with the soul's journey toward divine truth and union with God.
Each bird represents a human fault or weakness that must be overcome on the spiritual journey. One outcome of the journey is the birds' eventual realization that they themselves are “the Simorgh” - the divine being they seek.
Jammet's conference of birds includes birds of prey as well as small, vulnerable birds who themselves are prey. Her works are a response to the bewildering turmoil across the globe and our search for teachers and answers.
Her exhibition is also a poignant and unsettling meditation on humanity’s sustained impact on the winged creatures with whom we share the Earth.
