Interrupted Confession
Made from several photographs, this large collage blurs the boundaries between inside and outside, between plants, humans, and technology. Several images are combined and superimposed: a female figure with a hollowed-out face holding a green plant, a radiator, a window, snow-covered tree branches, and kitchen utensils. Together they form an enigmatic ensemble which, as the title suggests, invokes the idea of a secret, a confession whose meaning must be elucidated by adding visual signs. Anna Parkina’s images function like puzzles. While evoking Russian constructivism and Soviet propaganda, her collages create a layered and equivocal surface that recalls the unreal constructions and impossible perspectives of the Dutch draughtsman M.C. Escher, who was greatly inspired by architecture and mathematics, as well as the trompe l’oeil work of René Magritte.
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Wilkinson Gallery, Londres (Angleterre)
from 15 Feb to 28 Mar 2013