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What is autonomy? Sailing/failing, facilitating accidental encounters with matter, organizing chaos to speak of an underlying design? Using the process of ‘transfer’ that Shirley Wiitasalo has developed over the years she explores the variability and nuance of texture in her new series of paintings. This body of works reflects on individual monochromatic compositions that when viewed together are balanced in terms of colour and form. The white ground in Wiitasalo’s new paintings is a surface that is at once both present and absent, and is muted by a delicate transferred layer that sits on top. The subject matter hints towards an experience of ruffled linens, crinkled plastic, or creases of skin. Perhaps this simultaneity of folds is at once both visceral and theoretical; evoking a multiplicity of associations. The painting process and any “subject” come together at once emerging as an affect that eludes description. These paintings don’t translate through language but through body…
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What is autonomy? Sailing/failing, facilitating accidental encounters with matter, organizing chaos to speak of an underlying design? Using the process of ‘transfer’ that Shirley Wiitasalo has developed over the years she explores the variability and nuance of texture in her new series of paintings. This body of works reflects on individual monochromatic compositions that when viewed together are balanced in terms of colour and form. The white ground in Wiitasalo’s new paintings is a surface that is at once both present and absent, and is muted by a delicate transferred layer that sits on top. The subject matter hints towards an experience of ruffled linens, crinkled plastic, or creases of skin. Perhaps this simultaneity of folds is at once both visceral and theoretical; evoking a multiplicity of associations. The painting process and any “subject” come together at once emerging as an affect that eludes description. These paintings don’t translate through language but through body…
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