The landscape becomes the starting point where the textures of painting intersect with the concrete and organic world, blurring the border separating the natural and the artificial, and experimenting with ways of inhabiting the environment. These landscapes arise from a subjective view of nature that makes them sensitive and emotional representations.
They are thus interior but also interior, enclosed and folded into the exhibition rooms that house them. At the same time, they carry with them the marshy and earthy expanses they represent, moving away from the hectic and static urban space that contains them to bring forth the possibility of a slow, natural cycle: that of the growth of plants and the succeeding seasons.
These pictorial landscapes, therefore, have the power to evoke a natural and intimate space-time. The visible resonances between the works hint at the possibility of a synchronic link that brings them together around the same signifying horizon, beyond all geographical and historical causality.
It is, such synchronicity, "the surfacing of symbolic parallelisms" that, according to Jung, "cannot be explained without recourse to the hypothesis of the collective unconscious" Jung, The Synchronicity. The wild entanglements and quiet horizons are thus imbued with a common symbolic sphere: the works of the four artists "set the world on its way, arouse the forces that swell forms, provoke the forces asleep in the flat universe" Bachelard, Paysages.
Albert Flocon. But above all, they set us on a journey toward ecosystems where nature is no longer sacrificed and circumscribed but nests in our everyday gestures, renewing the need for an intimate and spontaneous connection with nature. The artist plays with the frontier of her subjectivity by externalizing it. Her paintings thus reveal her view of the world, of green mountains and luminous water as well as of relaxed faces that become atmospheric and physiognomic places Vera Trachsel's poetics interrogates the visibility of the creative gesture in the material it transforms and shapes into landscapes dominated by movement.
