Exhibition: “Poétique de l’absence” by Sarah Aïssa
E-L.project is pleased to invite you to the first solo exhibition of the artist Sarah Aïssa, which will be held from Thursday, October 5 to Thursday, October 12 at the IESA arts&culture Gallery in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Poétique du silence plunges us into the fragile world of Sarah Aissa. Misty horizons, faded presences: Poétique du silence turns space into a place for reflection: how do we experience the world? Ghostly silhouettes and sinuous, almost smoky trees inhabit the exhibition and give it an atmosphere that is silent in appearance and screaming if one listens closely. Sarah Aissa creates in-between spaces that reveal the invisible, the evanescent, absence. Spaces that metamorphose.
For her first solo exhibition, the artist presents large-format paintings showing anonymous figures, stories that the artist infuses into her painting. A forest of white veils reveals imagined trees, thus theatricalizing silence and vulnerability, along with a series of drawings of unknown faces.
"I like drawing people, creating characters by imagining their story… I paint the anonymous: mothers, brothers, neighbors… strangers I meet in a gust of wind and know nothing about. Who are they? In the crowd, it is the individual who fades and becomes invisible. Life stories that I try to capture, to hold on to, to fix through painting so that they do not disappear, figures that I try to affirm. […] I try to capture through painting an imprint left in my subconscious. The trace caught by a fleeting glance or a walk, survivals partly invented by a fallible memory… The characters are therefore archetypes, the trees are not really trees, all within a kind of theatricalization of reality with chiaroscuro effects that accentuate the dramatic aspect of the painting."
In her artistic universe where silence is master, where time and emotions remain frozen, suspended, Sarah offers a glimpse of a vulnerable world, conducive to contemplation. The artist has a sensitive relationship with matter; she conveys the fragility of existence through tears and perforations and by treating paint in volume.
"While the canvas support is sometimes streaked with incisions and tears made in lively gestures, it is as much a subject as the figure, which becomes transparent in places." Sarah Aissa
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