MULTICOLOUR EXPANSE
Chaos of all colours, an illogical mosaic, like music without a system. Yet it is not discordant.
Colour cannot be controlled, it spreads out according to its own rules. Traces are born, and they disappear and reappear. Colour is a tangible sensation and an expanding atmosphere. Colour is an indeterminate state that dissipates in abundance.
"I haven't often used yellow as the main subject in my paintings, but this summer, in the light of summer, yellow, or yellows, have risen up to oppose blue. And the greens, they come from what's around me. In the paintings, the reflections of the surroundings turn into something that resembles technobabies in the pulse of strobe lights that last until dawn.
I've painted outside and I've painted in a shed, been lost and found my way back by chance. The passage of light defines time, but I forget that. Forgetting is a throwing away, and throwing away is a discovery. Acceptance of the uncontrollable is necessary."
The exhibition is an image of colour as such, of the possibilities of painting and of the eternal impossibility in which meanings recreate themselves.
Isabel Pathirane is a Helsinki-based visual artist who currently lives and works in Ruotsinkylä, Loviisa.Pathirane graduated from the Free Art School as a painter in 2006 and from the University of the Arts Academy of Fine Arts as a Master of Arts in 2014.Pathirane works interdisciplinary with different painting techniques and paints outdoors in the natural environment during the summer.Her work is bound together by a strong use of colour and expressivity.
Pathirane has exhibited her work publicly since 2003 in several group and solo exhibitions. Recent public exhibitions have been held in Helsinki at Galleria Ranka, Vapaa kaupungin olohuone, HAA Gallery in Suomenlinna and most recently at Yö Galleria.