Isabelle Faria. Six months on place - Sublime Envy

02.11.2009 - 15.11.2009

in my room gallery, Paris / France

t was a double pleasure to discover Isabelle Faria's work and to meet the very sympathetic artist.
Even though I have only discovered her work recently, it is blatantly clear that it emerges from a passion for all artistic media, mostly tridimensional, namely committed and eloquent installations.
For In My Room, Isabelle Faria chose to exhibit a selection of works, this time in the shape of huge drawings, from her 2009 project entitled Six Months One Place: Sublime Envy. A portion of a project spread over several years on the seven deadly sins.... November in Paris will be under the sign of Envy.
I will therefore have the pleasure of welcoming a selection of the artist's large scale drawings. Drawings seemingly alive because of their size, where the subject becomes a giant, drawn with such precision that light and matter come to life. The stroke is thick and distinct but the result is close to photography's brilliance and illustration's dexterity.
In these drawings I see the friendly connection that the artist may have had with her «subjects», a connection in which the «models» steal her show by taking ossession of HER chair, the artist's chair, a simple office chair but the seat of all meditations.
The subjects invite themselves into her world and at the same time play the role of voyeurs by robbing parts of her «vision», by sitting on her throne. Are they envious or leviathans?
Above artistic desire, we can also feel the artist's desire to put forward «personalities» and human expression. To me, Isabelle Faria is a complete artist with a passion for both art and the «being». One word comes to mind when seeing the path she followed for her work and her itinerant exhibitions, and that is «universal», not only because of her many journeys, and the cities she appropriated, but also because of the language of Art and her analysis of human behavior, two elements very present in her work and common to the entire world.

Olivia Lenard, Paris 2009