‘The Stone, The Wig and The Double Yolk’
An exhibition by Laurence Payot. 10 May – 2 June 2007
Conjuring large, bright and intensely colourful works of uncanny, yet enchanting objects, which repel and attract, blurring fiction and reality
The View Two Gallery will be transformed this spring by the sensational paintings of French artist Laurence Payot. For this exhibition Payot has delved into her memory and imagination and returned with images of the unconscious that both suggest and elude a fixed narrative. Conjuring large, bright and intensely colourful works of uncanny, yet enchanting objects, which repel and attract, blurring fiction and reality.
This exhibition began life by a prolific process of swift and intuitive sketching. The motifs with the greatest resonance have then been magnified and crystallised to form large-scale paintings. Payot chooses her subjects for their playful nuances, momentary objects at striking points of revelation and departure, in substance and significance; an alchemical flame in the throws of metamorphoses, a dormant wig or a cracked egg spilling twin yolks. The works project an instinctive symbolism, generating surprise and mystery, which tease the collective unconscious.
