Isabelle Ferreira

“In her work, Isabelle Ferreira draws on a wide range of processes and references. deliberately against the grain. As a sculptor, she likes to use size as a means of producing her own work. as a draughtswoman and colorist, she strives to wrest from the drawing the integrity of its materiality in favor of its cutting, tearing or remnants. The attack alters the plane or lacerate the surface until it’s reduced to pieces or residue. Attacking here must be both understood as the beginning of an action, of an interpretation whose intensity aims to modify or alter its object, but also an undertaking to destroy it to a greater or lesser extent, without necessarily to the point of total destruction. For even if it destroys and lacerates, it carries in its remains the reliefs or a hint of energy, the colorful brilliance of what we might call the staccato of the drawing. The fall and the fragment are also a means of recomposing, through color, incision or fastening, what will make a painting. painting or the staple that fixes and/or joins, can also be the sketch of a line, and by multiplication cover. The economy of means does not preclude the expressiveness and productive power of energy as well as assumed simplicity, the complexity of perceptions. Scratching and incising, or the tearing become the tools of drawing, color, a statement of the plan and a staple can be the ‘morpheme’ of a model, a skin or a color.” Philippe Cyroulnik, art critic and exhibition curator.