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EdITH LASSIAT

Lives and works in Paris, France

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Edith Lassiat’s works strike us by the power of fragileness of their surfaces, at the same time. Each individual piece evoke an intimacy reminding us of
pigments and forms, which seem to find their origins in the soul of mankind late medieval “Andachtsbilder”: small scale religious images meant for
and the earth itself. They form a continuous effort to transcend knowledge, private devotion. Still, the works of Edith Lassiat cannot be interpreted
ranging from one’s own body and the techniques to live one’s life, to the without regarding them as parts of a whole, which can neither be known
traces of man’s search for truth and beauty. Lassiat’s works, some of them nor named. Each work, each series, form an ongoing process in which the
realized with earth pigments, appear to us as a permanent unfolding of light, artist captures “slices” of life’s creation, which is an ongoing process by
which material is generally considered as being the origin and basic condition itself. She does not re-present, but presents elements of life through its very
of life. Fragments of images and handwritten texts are organically integrated materialness (i.e. the act of creating works). The seductive quality of these
within a game of opaque and translucent layers. Developed in series, the works is based on their fragmented character and the relative space of time
paintings and paper works, all realized in human formats, read as a “journal in which they came to life. It is through this generous illusion, that Lassiat’s
intime”, a personal diary, imposing a respectful distance and intensive view works impose their realities among the realities around.
Adriaan Himmelreich, Maastricht, January, 2006

 CaLLIGraPHIe 1, 2006 CHINA INk AND MIxED MEDIA ON wOOD 15,5x20 IN. / 40x50 CM.  CaLLIGraPHIe 4, 2006 CHINA INk AND MIxED MEDIA ON wOOD 15,5x20 IN. / 40x50 CM.

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