[fire emoji] by Fernanda Brunet: at Main Room
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From the impalpable space, a certainty:
your voice;
your voice that melts and remains.
— Cut in suspense
by time,
cut to the brim like a flower,
like a shining wave, like a star,
it is reborn.
It opens, it lights up, it enters
-from an incandescent silence- into things.
You animate everything, you illuminate everything,
you abyss everything in its fire.
You give each shape its name;
to each name
its form: There,
from that point without end and
without beginning, you open the waters in the right word.
[In memory of Guillermo Brunet Rocha.]
Since 1997, when she presented her first solo exhibition in Mexico City, Fernada Brunet has created a pictorial language influenced by comics, nature and human sexuality. The artist considers that the moment of creation occurs as an involuntary catharsis that allows her to configure a painting that is both gestural and super-flat. In her second solo exhibition with Saenger Galeria, consistently titled after the symbol of fire used daily and globally in virtual interactions, Brunet brings together a wide range of recent works in her already recognized pictorial style, with vibrant colors and shapes that evoke unexpected visions of the human sensory experience.
In this regard, the artist has stated: "My practice is about nature and the human body. From there, I wanted to make painting and drawing a body, with a presence and a scale that confronts our human dimension, thus dislocating the perception we have of ourselves and the space that surrounds us. I have wanted each of my works to be a shaking and a stridency before the anodyne and monotonous of existence; the resulting images can be seen, touched and even heard, perceived in short, but without being fully understood or named: what does it matter if they are galaxies, volcanoes, clouds and waves, or fluids and body spasms?
Additionally, Fernanda Brunet's current show includes for the first time the presentation of objectual works made in the manner of fabrics with diverse natural and industrial materials that continue her visual exploration, adding an unprecedented character to her pictorial thought, which expands and complements it with volumes of lubricious edges that sensually incite the gaze and the touch. "I am not looking for a clear and resounding truth; instead, I am interested in finding an oblique view on that occasional and brief coincidence between subject and object. A body that is itself a landscape."
In this sense, Brunet's way of practicing painting is closer to an erotics of art, which is lived to the fullest but intuitively, hence also the artist's choice to name only visually her most recent public presentation. Perhaps, like the poet, her job is to burn.
