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WRP Foundation presents the exhibition "Lignes de traverse" 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 showcases a practice that unfolds through the crossing of different mediums. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not viewed as separate spaces, but as different ways to explore,… Bringing together works created between 2015 and 2026, Olivia Malena Vidal's exhibition showcases a practice that unfolds through the crossing of different mediums. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not viewed as separate spaces, but as different ways to explore, transpose and translate the same obsession: the image. The image is both 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 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 perspective. Slipping into an image, observing architecture through a reflection or an opening, shifting the viewpoint: perspective allows for exploring space and grasping what is seen. Reality is never quite looked at head-on; it appears through detours, framing games and overlaps. 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, 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 perspective 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, assembles them, covers them and modifies them to bring forth, from these fragments, her own forms. Over the years, reality leaves…