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The WRP Foundation presents the exhibition "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 testifies to a practice that develops through the transition from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not viewed as separate spaces, but as different ways of… Bringing together works created between 2015 and 2026, Olivia Malena Vidal's exhibition testifies to a practice that develops through the transition from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not viewed as separate spaces, but as different ways of exploring, transposing and translating the same 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 photography, a chosen image can be incorporated into a collage then covered by paint. Each transformation creates a gap: something of the original image remains, while a new one emerges. This way of working is accompanied by a reflection on seeing. Slipping into an image, observing architecture through a reflection or an opening, shifting the viewpoint: sight allows us to explore space and grasp what is seen. Reality is never quite looked at frontally; it appears through detours, framing tricks and overlays. This relationship to the image is also rooted in 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, overlaid and recomposed. The works of other artists gradually become personal material, a field of exploration. In this relationship with images, there is first the viewer's gaze, 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…