
Family Affair
Solo by Carlotta Bailly-Borg
Vitrine Gallery, Basel
20.01 - 06.03.22
With a body of work spanning drawing and painting on canvas, as well as on cloth, walls, glass panels and ceramics, the artist is consistently exploring new ways for her emblematic anthropomorphic creatures to inhabit a variety of contexts. Her visual imagery is informed by a myriad of trans-historic and trans-cultural references; her references range from medieval manuscripts and Hellenic myths to Japanese erotic representations and Hindu folklore. These sources of inspiration challenge the artist in a constant reconsideration of her universe, both in conceptual and in technical ways. However, the beings she brings to life remain recognisable, even if they delicately transgress time, space, and their own identities. Their bodies occupy spaces in ways that reflect all the conflicting feelings that accompany acts of desire. They hide in corners, take a leap, stretch languidly, and curiously approach and explore one another and their surroundings.
Exhibition text (in duo with Trouble)




