Land scape
Marie Rioux
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
The darkness is balanced by the light we disclose in each and every one of us . To respond to your question more precisely , it is of course the reflection of a fading inner solitude . Nevertheless , I live in a northern country , where there is often no light . This surely influences my environment and thus my creative activity . For this series , “ Rencontre pendant la nuit ” (“ Encounter at Night ”), it ’ s like a story I tell in which the places are imaginary but could also be real . The ambivalence of our existence , its fleetingness , its precariousness , its difficulties , the true , the false , all that is the basis of my work . I work on memory , on what my mind retained between dream and reality and where the atmosphere is dominated by the emotion felt . In my work these concepts are constantly coming into contact and irremediably becoming confounded . . . The connection between them is vague , furtive , filled with originality and the unexpected . Being a little dyslexic , it ’ s simple for me , I mix everything up . . . ( smile )
While marked out with a deep introspective quality , your works are more than mere representations of your inner self : you rather seem to invite the viewers to an augmented perceptual experience to discover unexpected aspects not only of their inner world , but of the connectivity that affects our everchanging contemporary age . How would you consider the relationship between the inner landscape and the outside world ? Could art provide us with a channel of communication between these aspects of reality ?
I think it is more a dialogue between perception of a physical space and my
« Zone libre # 1 » (" Free zone # 1 "), 36x72 , oil on canvas , 2010
memory of it . I incorporate technology ( electric wires and hydro towers , bridges , etc .) in nature because they are illustrative of our age . An artist friend has described my