CAROLE BENZAKEN – LA-BAS…TOI
2019-01-14In her nearly thirty years of rummaging through image feeds in search of snapshots, Carole Benzaken has methodically developed a polysemous and homogenous body of work, while also allowing heterogeneous ramifications to form. The artist questions the sheer profusion and speed at which these images constantly assault us, provoking a feeling of satiation, despite a visual multiplicity that is never quenched.
At the Bourg-Tibourg gallery, Carole Benzaken will present the series Greffes (Grafts), eight paintings of identical format, in which the chromatic variations shift between acid green and the sweetest of pinks. The subject of the work is hidden by the paint, to the point that it is impossible to recognize it, concealed as it is by the fluctuations in speed. A few vertical lines alone mark the frenetic horizontality, punctuating the artist’s unfettered brushstrokes. Eloquently verbal and musical (“I paint like I speak,” says the artist), these paintings take the viewer on a frantic race through space and time.
Opposite – Germe rouge 3, 2018
Exhibition runs through to February 23rd, 2019
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
3 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri
75004 Paris
France
