Amélie Scotta Withdraw III
Amélie Scotta
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05.05 > 29.06.24
VERNISSAGE SUNDAY 05.05.2024 from 2 - 7 pm
In her second solo exhibition at the Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Amélie Scotta presents a series of works exploring the notions of habitat and landscape through colour and organic materials, brought to life through both drawing (wood, bark, rock, etc.) and paper (mineral, vegetable, etc.).
In the Withdraw series, the artist works in two stages, superimposing two layers of drawing and two types of perspective. The first layer, applied quickly and randomly across the entire surface of the paper in coloured ink, can evoke the atmospheric dimension of a landscape. The bright, unnatural colours and the invisibility of the gesture give the impression of a luminous, radiant surface. Here and there, accidents of material accentuate the effect of a printed image that has been doctored, washed out and deteriorated. The second layer, drawn in graphite, somehow constrains, obstructs or limits these infinite expanses.
Created slowly and meticulously in pencil, the motifs of trellis, wire netting and other barriers reflect the artist's preoccupation with the question of confinement. The idea of withdrawal, whether voluntary or not, has already been evoked in earlier works, notably the Reclusoirs, sculptures inspired by the small enclosed buildings in which penitents lived in the Middle Ages. But the contrast between the immateriality of the coloured surface and the repetitive pattern of the drawing also speaks to us of what is said beyond the edge of the paper.
Amélie Scotta
