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PARIS - April
About Tatyana Murray
JAS GALLERY
Paris - until 25 April
Paris - until 25 April
Bird Head (skull light series)
Glass, plexi, wood, led lights, 72x82x26cm
Light as an essential medium
In her exhibition "Between Phantasia and Phainesthai",Tatyana Murray presents a recent series of transparent plexiglas boxes bordered by LED neons. Diffusing a phantom light, these neon LEDs reveal trees and leaves, but also human or animal skulls etched into multiple layers of glass, the overlapping of which gives life to the images. Subjected to the variations in intensity of the neon LEDs, these images float in their boxes, appearing to vacillate between a wish to appear and a wish to disappear. She explains: “I use the most advanced technology with classical drawing techniques. Light is the main source of the work, which also addresses the issue of time. Scratch marks are etched into the multiple layers of glass. The light above refracts off the markings creating a three dimensional quality. Once the light is off, the image disappears.”
Tatyana Murray portrays symbols of life and death as if to capture Time which, irremediably, leads all things to their demise, as if to explore man's desire to control nature.
Making visible the revelatory power of light, which enlightens both things and ideas equally, she plays with notions of perception between sensing apparition (phainesthai) and imagination (fantasia).
While her artworks create a delicate tension between the solid and the ethereal, the traditional and the experimental, nostalgia and potential,Tatyana Murray pushes us to meditate on nature and its beauty, complex and fragile.
In her exhibition "Between Phantasia and Phainesthai",Tatyana Murray presents a recent series of transparent plexiglas boxes bordered by LED neons. Diffusing a phantom light, these neon LEDs reveal trees and leaves, but also human or animal skulls etched into multiple layers of glass, the overlapping of which gives life to the images. Subjected to the variations in intensity of the neon LEDs, these images float in their boxes, appearing to vacillate between a wish to appear and a wish to disappear. She explains: “I use the most advanced technology with classical drawing techniques. Light is the main source of the work, which also addresses the issue of time. Scratch marks are etched into the multiple layers of glass. The light above refracts off the markings creating a three dimensional quality. Once the light is off, the image disappears.”
Tatyana Murray portrays symbols of life and death as if to capture Time which, irremediably, leads all things to their demise, as if to explore man's desire to control nature.
Making visible the revelatory power of light, which enlightens both things and ideas equally, she plays with notions of perception between sensing apparition (phainesthai) and imagination (fantasia).
While her artworks create a delicate tension between the solid and the ethereal, the traditional and the experimental, nostalgia and potential,Tatyana Murray pushes us to meditate on nature and its beauty, complex and fragile.
Standing Bird (skull light series)
Glass, plexi, wood, led lights, 72x82x26cm
TATYANA MURRAY
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April 2011
