tAnia girard-savoie
Exhibition from Tuesday, September 3rd to Saturday, October 5th, 2019
Opening on Saturday, September 7th, 2019 at 2 pm
Feeling of lightness exhibition
My production is the result of a new, important investigation of different pictorial and graphic process in relation to silk-screen. With the objective of creating a fusion among three field of creation (silkscreen, drawing and painting) I wanted to renew my approach to silkscreen by opening up further possibilities in the medium. No longer only a silkscreen, each print becomes a mono-print. Each work on paper is unique, but the composition of each piece is constructed with the multiplicity of process that printmaking offers.
I create different models using the processes of painting, drawing and silk-screen itself. Each universe is a model for other and vice versa. It is, in fact, a co-existence among painting and drawing with silk-screen. As the three processes court and intermingle, the work is built through a series of transformative encounters among the different techniques. When seeing the piece, one is struck by the layering of transparent spots and the multiplicity of graphic marks. One imagines the creative process that lies inside the movement, the moments and the possibilities of my physical actions and thoughts within in the interior of space of the paper or the support of the work itself. One imagines the work in studio that requires a strong and dynamic physical gesture. By superposing many layers at a time (as many as ten screens at once) I always works on many works at the same time. While offering a lot of visual information, these last work still represent a feeling of lightness, a sensation of floating. Each decision made during the making of work is geared to create this illusion. Each piece presents a space, a territory where one can circulate in the foreground and in the background, either by the superposition of layers, or by the choice of colours, or by the delicacy of drawing or by the scale of the large format. The organization and the presentation of works in the gallery are also taken into consideration, in order to accentuate the effect of a feeling of lightness, a sensation of floating.
