Photograph of Artist FRANCOISE ISSALY
FRANCOISE ISSALY
Montreal, - Canada



Original Artworks (3)

Francoise Issaly; Plis Et Formes VII, 2014, Original Painting Acrylic, 36 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241        Acrylic on canvas         ...
Francoise Issaly
Original Acrylic Painting, 2014
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
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Francoise Issaly; Plis Et Formes XII, 2014, Original Painting Acrylic, 24 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241       Acrylic on canvas        ...
Francoise Issaly
Original Acrylic Painting, 2014
24 x 24 inches (61.0 x 61.0 cm)
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Francoise Issaly; Plis And Formes XIII, 2014, Original Painting Acrylic, 24 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241      Acrylic on canvas       ...
Francoise Issaly
Original Acrylic Painting, 2014
24 x 24 inches (61.0 x 61.0 cm)
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Artist Statement

Involved in the visual arts for more than twenty years, my work includes abstract painting, drawing, and occasionally installation art and photography. My approach is serial and cumulative and involves multiplication, superimposition, and/or repetition. My images, gleaned in the course of my travels and intellectual wanderings, are heterogeneous in origin (animals, artefacts, scientific literature, etc.), and I blend them in a systematic and formal way until the possible combinations have been exhausted.

My works present dream-like images where the figurative and the formal are melded together; vaguely recognizable forms emerge from a ground that appears homogeneous but whose meaning eludes us. The resulting compositions can give rise to multiple interpretations. By focusing on both ambiguity and familiarity at once—and through numerous variations—I seek to create visual spaces where various realities overlap. My goal is to convey the difficulty of being in the in-between, the oscillation, the blur, and the viewer is constantly coaxed to go there.

My interest in the “in-between” goes back to my teenage years when I was studying a text by the philosopher Blaise Pascal in which he writes, “Car enfin, qu’est-ce que l’homme dans la nature ? Un néant à l’égard de l’infini, un tout à l’égard du néant, un milieu entre rien et tout.” [Ultimately, then, what is man in nature? A nothingness in relation to the infinite, an all in relation to nothingness, a middle between nothing and everything.] These words have always stuck in my mind. The ambiguous position of human beings in the universe fascinates me; we never stop trying to find our place, yet we never manage to do so (whether individually or as a species). Because we exist between opposite poles (good-evil, light-darkness, peace-violence, knowledge-ignorance, and so on), we are forever repositioning ourselves, rethinking situations. On closer examination, we realize that there is no single answer to our questions: every response oscillates between two truths, two perceptions. My pictures are interpretations of this oscillation, between the certainty of recognizing a form and the experience of seeing it dissolve before our eyes.

The complete structure is never shown in my work. Through abstraction, I wish to heighten the elements of surprise and instability so as to bring into question the very notion of perception. My images strive for a quiet poetry, one that leaves subtle mnemonic traces at the border between the known and the unknown. That said, I aim not so much to destabilize the viewer as to explore the power of the mind and the shortcuts it can take to resolve a problem or a puzzle.







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