Laurence Finet (CA)
Text written by GHA
Laurence Finet’s surreal prints in small formats combine drypoint, photopolymer and chine collé in multi-layered compositions that challenge classical landscape depictions.
The overlapping layers create enigmatic compositions, through which an intriguing tension between dry realism and the surreal formations, that seem to grow on or out of the pictures, arises. By adding these disturbing formations an additional foreground is created. This allows the viewer to step out of the composition and consider it from the outside. The motifs thus take place on the edge of reality. At the same time, they challenge our idea of reality by distorting classic depictions of unspoiled landscapes and authentic nature.
It seems as if the vast horizons of windblown fields, that make up the basis of the sceneries, are subject to natural decay or even attacked by layers of abstract, apparently organic shapes. It is almost as if the prints themselves had been left in the landscapes they depict, and for years had been exposed to sun, rain and symbiotic processes. Finet’s work thereby expands the idea of nature and challenges the viewer to consider their conception of pure untouched landscapes by making these notions appear incomplete, stained and tarnished.
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