Isabelle Borges & Simone Lucas: Forking Paths
Isabelle Borges鈥 exhibition title Forking Paths 鈥 is based on the short story 鈥淭he Garden of Forking Paths鈥 by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story is about the infinite realities that open up when people are faced with decisions and the non-linear aspect of time and space.
Analogously, Isabelle Borges refers to the numerous decisions she has to make as an artist when she chooses a particular painting. Before she begins to paint, she photographs natural structures of plants reflected in a particular lake in Brandenburg, which she visits regularly. She transfers the lines, surfaces and spaces she observes there, which are formed by the reeds in the lake, into her paintings as abstract elements. Her paintings are non-representational and radiate an enchanting lightness, despite their geometric rigor. They invite the viewer to move their gaze in a shared imaginary space. Isabelle Borges therein concerns herself with the process of deceleration and the perception of color, line and space.
The color surfaces are painted in many layers to create an enormous depth. Lines also change their straight course again and again, bend, cross each other, sometimes widen or taper and become hair-thin.
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Isabelle Borges鈥 exhibition title Forking Paths 鈥 is based on the short story 鈥淭he Garden of Forking Paths鈥 by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story is about the infinite realities that open up when people are faced with decisions and the non-linear aspect of time and space.
Analogously, Isabelle Borges refers to the numerous decisions she has to make as an artist when she chooses a particular painting. Before she begins to paint, she photographs natural structures of plants reflected in a particular lake in Brandenburg, which she visits regularly. She transfers the lines, surfaces and spaces she observes there, which are formed by the reeds in the lake, into her paintings as abstract elements. Her paintings are non-representational and radiate an enchanting lightness, despite their geometric rigor. They invite the viewer to move their gaze in a shared imaginary space. Isabelle Borges therein concerns herself with the process of deceleration and the perception of color, line and space.
The color surfaces are painted in many layers to create an enormous depth. Lines also change their straight course again and again, bend, cross each other, sometimes widen or taper and become hair-thin.
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Isabelle Borges鈥 exhibition title Forking Paths 鈥 is based on the short story 鈥淭he Garden of Forking Paths鈥 by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. Analogously, Isabelle Borges refers to the numerous decisions she has to make as an artist when she chooses a particular...