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Artist's
Statement
As
an artist, I work in different disciplines: painting, printing (etching
and silk screen), drawing, photography and poetry. I have also created
scenery for theatre, pieces of furniture and other objects in collaboration
with other artists and designers. However the bulk of my artistic
production consists of mixed media paintings which integrate poems,
drawings, prints and photographic images.
After my poems
are written in calligraphy on the canvas, several layers of collage
and glazes are introduced to mark the passage of time. Other elements
are accentuated by the use of architectural details underlining
the duality of inside and outside where mystery resides.
The mirror,
symbol of purity of soul and the reflection of the self on consciousness,
reflects the memories enclosed in my mind. The words, objects, and
architecture of the past contain the memories of my imaginary world.
As in a film
on the passage of time, my paintings form the sequence of my artistic
memory. Distant memories, writings, suggested, unclear, in places
where boundaries cease to exist, all are twirled together in the
semi darkness of the dream world.
In other works,
ancient architectural elements formed and drawn out clearly, invade
the space on the canvas evoking the atmosphere of a now deceased
epoch. Portraits of the great masters spring forth with their penetrating
glaze. Emerging from the past, my self-portrait appears at times
in my work as a symbol of the present moment.
Those insistent
looks and the architectural openings invite the onlookers to enter,
to go more deeply into the immense intimacy of some unknown being
or place, encouraging them to try to reach the heart of the matter,
the very essence. The mirror of an intense glance returns the reflection
of their own glance.
In my recent
works, I pursue my poetic and pictorial research on time, light,
architecture, art history and the duality between container and
content which had already begun in my work, to which I have added
quite recently, texture and relief work on wood supports. I wish
to transmit my poems as well as my dreams and my imaginary world
in the richest possible way to the visitors who come to my exhibitions
so that we may cross the mirror of time together.
Élaine
Boily
translated
by Catherine Bookless
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