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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 builds itself through the passage from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not seen 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 builds itself through the passage from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not seen as separate spaces, but as different ways of exploring, transposing and translating a single obsession: the image. The image is both subject, matter 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 integrated into a collage then covered by paint. Each metamorphosis produces 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. 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 frontally; it appears through detours, framing games and superposition. This relationship to the image is also dependent on 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, superimposed and recomposed. The works of other artists gradually become personal matter, 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, assembles them, covers them and modifies them to bring forth, from these fragments, her own forms. Over the years, reality leaves…