Vivianne van Singer
Réflexions/Projections/Objections
Opening on May 26th 2015 from 6pm in presence of the artist
Exhibition from May 27th to July 17th, 2015
Open Monday thru Friday from 11am to 5pm and by appointment
“In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface; I am over there, there where I am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent: such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that I occupy. From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there.” (Michel Foucault - “Of Other Spaces" - Sayings and Writings, 1954-1988 - IV, Biblithèque des Sciences Humaines. Paris - Éditions Gallimard, 1984, p.756)
When the gallerist Leticia Maciel invited me to organize an exhibition at espace_L, as curator and artist of the gallery, I had the intention of proposing a "self-reflection".
It was indeed the perfect time to gather a number of works that have been produced over the last fifteen years, including some recent creations.
My proposals, each in their own way, deal with color and depend on the space and light. They are all linked to the mirror and its reflection, in one way or another.
Either these mirrors become what I call disturbed mirrors, "troubled" by color and placement, or by words that are like the echo of a voice.
The work of recent Italian artists, such as the Arte Povera and those of the history of art of the 1500s, like the Mannerist artists, return insistently in the design of the works presented. My Italian heritage and my affinity with the transalpine culture and language, also appear in the titles given to these works.
I.M.E.I.M.A. 2001, 2015, Tondi, 2014 Bassi Rilievi, compositions d’après Pontormo 2015 revisit the color of the Mannerist artists, they echo what in their use of color eroticises bodies or declines in a rescued rainbow sky. Tutto... tutta… 2014 brings back a voice by invoking a family resemblance. Acque 2003 holds a puddle in the moment of its evaporation, a souvenir of a gray sky, dark or bright, in which Narcissus would be lost, and finally Pupilla 2015, a metaphor and an evocation of the eye itself imilarly, a mirror and a reflection.
For every viewer the visit becomes a sensitive and reflective experience, a way of seeing and thinking as a person whose body is caught in time and space, an embodied self.
An invitation to come see the exhibition, Réflexions/Projections/Objections, opening on May 26, 2015.
VVS, April 2015
Réflexions/Projections/Objections
Opening on May 26th 2015 from 6pm in presence of the artist
Exhibition from May 27th to July 17th, 2015
Open Monday thru Friday from 11am to 5pm and by appointment
“In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface; I am over there, there where I am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent: such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that I occupy. From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there.” (Michel Foucault - “Of Other Spaces" - Sayings and Writings, 1954-1988 - IV, Biblithèque des Sciences Humaines. Paris - Éditions Gallimard, 1984, p.756)
When the gallerist Leticia Maciel invited me to organize an exhibition at espace_L, as curator and artist of the gallery, I had the intention of proposing a "self-reflection".
It was indeed the perfect time to gather a number of works that have been produced over the last fifteen years, including some recent creations.
My proposals, each in their own way, deal with color and depend on the space and light. They are all linked to the mirror and its reflection, in one way or another.
Either these mirrors become what I call disturbed mirrors, "troubled" by color and placement, or by words that are like the echo of a voice.
The work of recent Italian artists, such as the Arte Povera and those of the history of art of the 1500s, like the Mannerist artists, return insistently in the design of the works presented. My Italian heritage and my affinity with the transalpine culture and language, also appear in the titles given to these works.
I.M.E.I.M.A. 2001, 2015, Tondi, 2014 Bassi Rilievi, compositions d’après Pontormo 2015 revisit the color of the Mannerist artists, they echo what in their use of color eroticises bodies or declines in a rescued rainbow sky. Tutto... tutta… 2014 brings back a voice by invoking a family resemblance. Acque 2003 holds a puddle in the moment of its evaporation, a souvenir of a gray sky, dark or bright, in which Narcissus would be lost, and finally Pupilla 2015, a metaphor and an evocation of the eye itself imilarly, a mirror and a reflection.
For every viewer the visit becomes a sensitive and reflective experience, a way of seeing and thinking as a person whose body is caught in time and space, an embodied self.
An invitation to come see the exhibition, Réflexions/Projections/Objections, opening on May 26, 2015.
VVS, April 2015