Memories of Eden | Jade Fenu

Jade Fenu’s paintings show spaces of great density of materials and colours, evoking environments that are at once marine, mountainous and tinged with mystery. Some present anthropomorphic landscapes, somewhere between reality and fiction, like metaphors for fears or fantasies, suggesting an inner world. Architectural forms appear like pillars that give rhythm to her paintings, while leaving the movement of the forms perceptible. They embody the cycles of life, growth and transformation of living beings.

The works provoke a loss of reference points while inviting us to discover the superimposed layers of time. Her canvases offer an escape, an exploration, just as in a steep landscape or an underwater environment, and provoke a shift towards an elsewhere outside time. Generous in materials, colours and shapes, her paintings are both structured and unstructured, requiring a certain amount of time to grasp them and discover other elements with each visual contact. (Pauline Lisowsky)