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WRP Foundation presents "Lignes de traverse" exhibition 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 bears witness to a practice that develops through the transition from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not considered as separate spaces, but as different… Bringing together works created between 2015 and 2026, Olivia Malena Vidal's exhibition bears witness to a practice that develops through the transition from one medium to another. Photography, painting, drawing and collage are not considered as separate spaces, but as different ways of exploring, transposing and translating the same obsession: the image. The image is both subject, material and starting point. It is looked at, photographed, painted, cut out, 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 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 one to explore space and grasp what is seen. Reality is never quite looked at frontally; it appears through detours, framing games and superimpositions. This relationship to the image is also linked 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, 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 out, assembles them, covers them and modifies them to bring forth, from these fragments, her own forms. Over the years, reality leaves…