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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 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 develops 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 the same obsession: the image. The image is both subject, matter and point of departure. 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 photograph, a chosen image can be integrated into a collage then covered by paint. Each metamorphosis creates a gap: something of the original 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 one to explore space and apprehend what is seen. Reality is never quite looked at frontally; it appears through detours, framing and layering games. This relationship to the image is also indebted to 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 up, assembles them, covers them and modifies them to make emerge, from these fragments, her own forms. Over the years, reality leaves...