Bind

Sarah Longworth-West

2019, 60 x 42 cm, Oil paint on pigmented gesso panel

In her work, the artist takes us to a dystopian imaginary full of evaporated sensations and diluted colors that make up a dream like perspective w here the protagonists of the works mix with the background. The ambiguity of the figures is framed by the colors of the landscape w here references to specific places are barely existent.

Only some objects are objectively represented as collage cutouts that are interspersed with sensations left by memories. In her paintings, the artist manages an entire imaginary around a concept and what it represents in different situations. In "Bind" we observe traces of what a chair resembles with what we mentally associate with a confinem ent and lack of freedom. However, the constant juxtaposition of opposites is what makes us reflect beyond the pure concept adding shapes that are reminiscent of mountainous landscapes or flowers wild.