MARTHA-MARIA LE BARS
Martha-Maria Le Bars explores the relationship between space and landscape through colour. The artist, who focuses on themes of slowness, softness, and fragility as counterpoints to the hectic pace of the material world, observes the conditions that lead us to regard a space as a landscape.
Le Bars establishes a new protocol for painting by expanding beyond the traditional canvas frame and a method of releasing the paints and colours onto the space. The series ‘Peinture_Paysages Mémoires’ (2018–2023) is a ceramic-like work layered with paints and involves with the strata of time and ‘memory’ through a surfaced material of colours. The objects, resembling organic minerals or ancient scholar’s stones called suseok(수석, 壽石) evoke an island of solitude. As the artist states that geographical space is not necessarily continuous, these artworks create fragmented, uncharted islands of memories resisting to be integrated into the map.
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