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Overduin & Co. is pleased to present the exhibition, “Sans Soleil,” by Poppy Jones.
The exhibition takes its title from the 1983 experimental film by French writer and director Chris Marker. The film is described as a meditation on the nature of human memory, while Marker himself has declared the film nothing more than “a home movie.” At its start the film’s narrator recounts, “I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me."
Throughout her work, Jones’ imagery captures an intensity in life’s ordinary moments. Images are rendered in oil and watercolor on suede and silk. These pictures document the pathos of everyday objects, recording fleeting moments of domestic life: flowers collected from the garden, sunlight dappled across the walls of a room, shadows falling on the pages of a book, a lone balloon caught at the ceiling. One work in the exhibition titled “Clock” depict…
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Overduin & Co. is pleased to present the exhibition, “Sans Soleil,” by Poppy Jones.
The exhibition takes its title from the 1983 experimental film by French writer and director Chris Marker. The film is described as a meditation on the nature of human memory, while Marker himself has declared the film nothing more than “a home movie.” At its start the film’s narrator recounts, “I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me."
Throughout her work, Jones’ imagery captures an intensity in life’s ordinary moments. Images are rendered in oil and watercolor on suede and silk. These pictures document the pathos of everyday objects, recording fleeting moments of domestic life: flowers collected from the garden, sunlight dappled across the walls of a room, shadows falling on the pages of a book, a lone balloon caught at the ceiling. One work in the exhibition titled “Clock” depict…
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