The space between truth and fiction
AN exhibition of work by the Latvian-born artist Zane Sutra was officially opened in the Presentation Centre in Enniscorthy last weekend and will continue until December 23.
Zane who lives and works in County Wexford recently obtained a BA Degree in Visual Arts from the Wexford School of Art and Design at Carlow Institute of Technology.
The exhibition entitled ‘ Them’ features large scale figurative oil paintings along with smaller works, painted in 2016.
The images includes dome ceilings, water, smoke and war planes and are codes connected to Zane’s personal history.
‘ They are archetypes. They are factually absurd, fragmented memories turned into au- tonomous story lines,’ said the artist.
As a source material, she uses phototgraphs from the 1920’s called French Postcards and the work addresses issues both current and timeless.
‘It is about women, death, religion and sex. These women were real but remained anonymous. Painted characters are pointing to the misleading illusory imaginations that control our obsessions and phobias through historical disasters. They are symbols stereotyping dangerous pleasures (like war crime and sex crime) and confronting horror, femininity and mortality.’
Zane enjoys ‘ the justaposition, the ambiguity of the photographed image, between the truth and the fiction.’