Cream
Viviane Gernaert finds her inspiration in the scenes of contemporary films. She focuses her point of view on the classics of this genre: bodies, puddles of blood, the fight between two human beings, reflections or identity loss. The artist concentrates the power of the scenes in her sculptures, and plays with the aestheticization of violence in mediated reality. Bloodstains and 9 mm bullets, as signs of violence, confuse the viewer with their harmonious representation.
Gernaerts white sculptures appear to be suspended in motion, allowing you to imagine both the before and after. The viewer is disarmed by the dynamic rigidity of their appearance. The artist manages to capture the continual motion and action of film scenes (where one scene is only to be replaced in the next instant by another) in her sculptures, so that a complex storyline is merged into a single expression.
Amores Perros I, 2010
zellan, varnish
24 x 22 x 29 cm
Ed. 3 + 1 AP