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Dubhe Carreño Gallery Contemporary Ceramic Art |
Patricia Rieger
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Artist’s Statement
There is an intentional poetic attitude in my art that allows me to work and to imagine with a sense of purpose. There is an attempt towards precision. Meaning is always ambiguous and metaphorical.
Although my work appears to refer to a story, I am not concerned with a linear narrative. I am more interested in blurring the edges of dream, reality, fantasy and the imagination. I actually work to disrupt the logics of narration.
A goal is to explore the self in the noise of the world, the dialogue between the internal dialogue and the public language. I have an interest in creating in my sculptures and paintings a sense of place that is of the mind, that wants to present questions regarding its relation with the environment and culture. This is an intense and quiet search for a moment in time to highlight the contradictions between the private and the public world.
My current work and present installation belongs to a consistent and long search: the work as a vehicle to investigate ideas where the poetic and the imagination are given a pointed predilection. The intention is to be clearly and openly poetic, of the mind and the impossible. The hope is to render the unintelligible more accessible. They pursue a place in the intellect that is direct, accessible and vulnerable. I want an engagement close to failure, but persistently searching for a moment of silence.
The series ‘ Soliloquy’ was inspired by the fresco painting, Expulsion by the 15th century Italian artist Masaccio. I have adopted and transformed these two characters because I feel that they reflect a response to the tragic historical moment in which we are living.
This series is a continuation of the theme of the outsider, a subject that has been recurrent in my work since the beginning.
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