OFF TOPIC At the Edges of Reality
Selection by Jennifer Flay | 20 artworks
Whether it's to translate as closely as possible the intimate universe or the one that surrounds us - to enrich, purify or explore the essence of a motif by representing what it does not reveal - the points of passage to the languages of abstraction are multiple, persistent, and powerful: The examination of the subconscious, the restitution of unspeakable emotions, the wonder at the exuberance or romanticism of nature, the expression of a mapping of the world reduced to its strict essence, the staging of a dysfunctional reality, a macro vision or the investigation of the infinitely small…
Out of context (At the edges of reality) explores the interstitial spaces, at the tenuous borders, between a dreamlike, poetic, phantasmagorical, esoteric, Cartesian or intuitive figuration, and its metamorphosis - through sliding or tilting - into pure abstraction, whether it be lyrical, expressionist, geometric or non-objective. This selection of works expresses my unalterable fascination for this delicate, impermanent and floating balance; a back-and-forth between the motif and the elsewhere; the concrete and the imaginary; the identifiable and what escapes qualification; the subject and the Whole.

ARTISTS
PRESENTED

Nancy J. Mclaughlin
United States
Julie Perrin
France

Sophie Ong
France
Alice Goudon
France
Corentin Leber
France
Lucie Duban
France
Philippe Abril
France

Lyne De Vee
France

Émilie Pauly
France

Emily Starck
France

Carolina Alotus
Cyprus