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The WRP Foundation presents "Crossing Lines" by Geneva-based 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 develops through the passage from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not viewed as separate spaces, but as different ways to… Bringing together works created between 2015 and 2026, Olivia Malena Vidal's exhibition showcases a practice that develops through the passage from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not viewed as separate spaces, but as different ways to explore, transpose and translate the same obsession: the image. The image is both subject, material and starting point. It is looked at, photographed, painted, cut up, covered, enlarged or reduced. It changes context, scale and status. A photograph becomes painting, a drawing becomes photography, a chosen image can be integrated into a collage then covered by paint. Each transformation creates a gap: something of the original image remains, while a new one appears. This way of working is accompanied by reflection on the gaze. Slipping into an image, observing architecture through a reflection or an opening, shifting 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 superimposition. This relationship to the image is also shaped by art history. Over time, certain images are retained, accumulated, preserved as traces of encounters, references or fascinations. They constitute a visual memory that can be fragmented, layered and recomposed. The works of other artists gradually become personal material, a field of exploration. In this relationship to images, there is first the gaze of the spectator, 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 out, assembles them, covers them and modifies them to bring forth, from these fragments, her own forms. Over the years, reality leaves…