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The WRP Foundation presents "Crossing Lines" by Geneva 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 of… 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 of exploring, transposing, and translating the same obsession: the image. The image is simultaneously 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 then covered by paint. Each transformation creates a gap: something of the original image remains, while something new appears. This way of working is accompanied by 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 exploration of space and understanding of 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 viewer, 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…