Radiant Ignition
<p>There are very few artists as invested in the importance and role of the pre-image and the after-image as Martine Aballéa. The pre-image being the force of anticipation and awe before the image appears, and the after-image being the performative imagination that is released by the work. Therefore, it is very difficult to describe her work. We can name the many forms her practice takes—installations, objects, postcards, artist books, posters…—but what seems central is her interest in the super sentient.</p> <p>Art is not a living creature and yet it acts as a living thing because art is sentient, it is shaped by the experience of the world, of the real, its form is determined by the senses. Whose senses? This is an important question since in seeing the colors of Aballéa’s images and objects, such as her use of luminous pinks and blues in a recent series of postcard works made during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, we might interpret these images as belonging to dreams or to drug-induced hallucinations or to the digital world. However, the first thing that comes to my mind is that they may be made for a different eye…</p>
Authors: Chus Martínez
Artists: Martine Aballéa
Part of: TextWork
ISSN: 27269949