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The WRP Foundation presents the exhibition "Crossing Lines" by Geneva artist Olivia Malena Vidal
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Open in the appBringing together works created between 2015 and 2026, Olivia Malena Vidal's exhibition showcases a practice that builds itself through the transition from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not seen as distinct spaces, but as different ways of… Bringing together works created between 2015 and 2026, Olivia Malena Vidal's exhibition showcases a practice that builds itself through the transition from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not seen as distinct spaces, but as different ways of exploring, transposing and translating a single obsession: the image. The image is at once subject, material and starting point. It is looked at, photographed, painted, cut, covered, enlarged or reduced. It changes context, scale and status. A photograph becomes painting, a drawing becomes photograph, a chosen image can be incorporated into a collage then covered by paint. Each metamorphosis creates a gap: something of the first image remains, while a new one appears. This way of working is accompanied by a reflection on the gaze. To slip into an image, to observe architecture through a reflection or an opening, to shift the point of view: the gaze allows us to explore space and grasp what is seen. Reality is never quite looked at head-on; it appears through detours, framing games and superposition. This relationship to the image is also dependent on the history of art. Over time, certain images are retained, accumulated, preserved as traces of encounters, references or fascinations. They constitute a visual memory that can be fragmented, superimposed and recomposed. The works of other artists gradually become a personal material, a field of exploration. In this relationship to images, there is first the gaze of the viewer, attentive to the images surrounding her; then that of the collector, who gathers and preserves them; and finally that of the artist, who cuts them up, assembles them, covers them and modifies them to bring forth, from these fragments, her own forms. Over the years, reality leaves…