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The WRP Foundation presents the exhibition "Lignes de traverse" by Genevan 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 constructs itself in the passage from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing, and collage are not envisioned as distinct spaces, but as different… Bringing together works created between 2015 and 2026, Olivia Malena Vidal's exhibition testifies to a practice that constructs itself in the passage from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing, and collage are not envisioned 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 photography, a chosen image can be integrated into a collage and then covered by paint. Each metamorphosis produces a gap: something of the original image remains, while something new emerges. 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 viewpoint: the gaze makes it possible to explore space and grasp what is seen. Reality is never quite looked at head-on; it appears through detours, framing games, and superimpositions. 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 form a visual memory that can be fragmented, superimposed, 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 up, assembles them, covers them, and modifies them to make emerge, from these fragments, her own forms. Over the years, reality leaves…