Discovered at the Drawing Lab in Paris, where she was invited to display her Spatial drawings alongside other graphic productions (engravings, textile prints...), Vanessa Enriquez (born in Mexico City in 1973 and living in Berlin since 2008) composes works that are troubling because of their syncretism, both cultural and formal, and their singular hybridity that goes beyond any cliché.), Vanessa Enriquez (born in Mexico City in 1973 and living in Berlin since 2008) composes works that are troubling because of their syncretism, both cultural and formal, and their singular hybridity that goes beyond any compartmentalization between the arts, materials, techniques, media (material or immaterial)... Drawings in space, weavings, embroideries, sound works..., having set her sights on a salvaged material : the VHS tape, she exploits all the plastic possibilities (by stretching it, hanging it, sewing it, oxidizing it, sticking it...) to deploy, on paper or in space, her Dissipative Structures, Variations on Line, Fluctuations and other meditative geometries. A beautiful lesson of freedom.
Resounding Songs exhibition at Drawing Lab - 17, rue de Richelieu, Paris I - France
October 2021 - January 2022
https://www.drawinglabparis.com
Stéphanie Dulout