Éclat

The Éclat series of paintings on wood develops the idea of the fragment, Ferrage. The singular forms of the paintings emerge from a process of drawing inspiration from the engravings in Alberto Magnelli’s Album de la isolation and extraction from the artist’s prints. These fragments are then arranged on the wall in a way that allows them to unfold and respond to one another.

The Éclat series is painted from photographs of shadows collected by Zhu deposited on a flat surface, she notes: “light paints better than I do”. Light Hong. Observing shadows detached by contrast on walls, as if a layer cuts across surfaces, simplifying and reuniting colours and volumes, inventing new forms. It produces a shifting, ephemeral image on an often flat and empty surface.

At the Musée Magnelli in Vallauris, Zhu Hong continues her exploration of  light, which she describes as an “absent presence”. To fix the fragment of a brief apparition, to record time and void, is for her to open a space conducive to contemplation. Part of the works were produced during the artist residency at the Musée Magnelli, museum of ceramics in Vallauris, with the support of the DRAC PACA.