Land scape
Marie Rioux
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
The darkness is balanced by the light we disclose in each and every one of us. To respond to your question more precisely, it is of course the reflection of a fading inner solitude. Nevertheless, I live in a northern country, where there is often no light. This surely influences my environment and thus my creative activity. For this series,“ Rencontre pendant la nuit”(“ Encounter at Night”), it’ s like a story I tell in which the places are imaginary but could also be real. The ambivalence of our existence, its fleetingness, its precariousness, its difficulties, the true, the false, all that is the basis of my work. I work on memory, on what my mind retained between dream and reality and where the atmosphere is dominated by the emotion felt. In my work these concepts are constantly coming into contact and irremediably becoming confounded... The connection between them is vague, furtive, filled with originality and the unexpected. Being a little dyslexic, it’ s simple for me, I mix everything up...( smile)
While marked out with a deep introspective quality, your works are more than mere representations of your inner self: you rather seem to invite the viewers to an augmented perceptual experience to discover unexpected aspects not only of their inner world, but of the connectivity that affects our everchanging contemporary age. How would you consider the relationship between the inner landscape and the outside world? Could art provide us with a channel of communication between these aspects of reality?
I think it is more a dialogue between perception of a physical space and my
« Zone libre # 1 »(" Free zone # 1 "), 36x72, oil on canvas, 2010
memory of it. I incorporate technology( electric wires and hydro towers, bridges, etc.) in nature because they are illustrative of our age. An artist friend has described my