By combining French decorative arts motifs, organic imagery, and contemporary motivations into visual poetry, French artist Alice Riehl’s porcelain wall murals exist in a liminal space between the natural and constructed worlds. Nurtured by the memory of her grandmother’s needlework, Riehl explores the combination of porcelain and lace, working the peculiar texture of this marriage into a personal signature of her botanical inspired ceramic works.
With the Fugue series, Alice Riehl continues her exploration of Asian flora observed during her travels. Fascinated by the strange beauty of withered lotus leaves in the ponds and reservoirs of urban spaces in Taiwan and Macau, she has studied their different stages of life to compose a harmonious and intriguing whole.
More known for its flowers in many traditional representations, the lotus is here magnified by its leaves. Faded or blossoming, they form an ensemble that resembles notes and eighth notes on a musical score. The word fugue obviously refers to the musical genre, but also to escape, like an invitation to travel.
Initially conceived for a music lover with a passion for Asian culture, the work evokes the flights of the spirit, through exoticism, but also the encounter with other cultures that art and music allow us. By modeling lotus leaves at different stages of their evolution, the artist also evokes the passing of time and the cycles to which each of us is subject.
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