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EDITH LAssIAT
Lives and works in paris, France
 www.edithlassiat.com
artist contact
 lassiat.edith@wanadoo.fr

Lassiat’s works, some of them realized with earth
pigments, appear to us as a permanent unfolding
of light, which material is generally considered as
being the origin and basic condition of life.
Fragments of images and handwritten texts are
organically integrated within a game of opaque
and translucent layers. Developed in series, the
paintings and paper works, all realized in human
formats, read as a “journal intime”, a personal
diary, imposing a respectful distance and intensive
view at the same time.
Each individual piece evoke an intimacy reminding
us of late medieval “Andachtsbilder”: small scale
religious images meant for private devotion. Still,
the works of Edith Lassiat cannot be interpreted
without regarding them as parts of a whole, which
can neither be known nor named.
Each work, each series, form an ongoing process
in which the artist captures “slices” of life’s
creation, which is an ongoing process by itself.
(rxcerpt)

Adriaan Himmelreich, Maastricht

CALLIgrAPHIe 8, 2006 cHina ink anD mixeD meDia
on wooD 15,5x20 in. / 40x50 cm.