Transparences at Braam Art Restauration & Gallery

« Choosing certain moments of tension, like memories or intuitions of an interior world, like premonitions of what cannot be revealed ; allowing these moments to be seen in small drawings that hold the gaze – small drawings that invite the viewer to come closer, to lean in, and, at times, to hold his breath in front off this strangely familiar yet unknown image.

Who said our bodies were filled with viscera? Our pains, our fears, our loves? And if they were animated only by a vital sap that passes through the body from the roots to the sky?

Here is a tentative of self-portrait that is shown to the viewer through a continuous process of veiling and unveiling, where the inner and outer limits of the body are ambiguous. This then becomes both the container and what is contained of an imaginary voyage.

Approaching the subject through transparency brings depth but demands a sustained effort from the viewer. The transparency makes the limits of the gaze, of what can be known through the senses.

These drawings relate to femininity and the search for contemplation through the use of line, superimposed layers and glass. The glass sculptures extend the concept of our voyage of constant amazement, both within and without ourselves, despite our ephemeral condition of beings confronted with time. »

A.M.A