FRIDA HARARI SITTON
My work explores the relationship between light, space and visual perception.
Frida Harari Sitton (b.1985) is a Mexican artist whose work focuses in the use of painting, and neon light to focus on the behaviour of light and color. She currently lives and works between Mexico City and New York.
Her latest work explores perception through the visual perception of transparent color acrylic, the composition of new colours and neon light who play a secondary part in the creation of the artwork, that evoques different aspects of human perception with an ephemeral concept of reflection.
The current series arises withinthe intersection of a quasi weightless amorphous ether and solid, geometric and defined shapes. Yet the noble gases that possess no color, smell or taste, and are lighter than air share an essential feature with the acrylic sheets: transparency.
A constellation is produced as the excited gas iluminates the reflective polymer. Hybrid nuances are revealed, as tones interpose and each original color cedes its identity to a new shared state. The observer becomes subject of the piece of art, as it absorbs its light and modifies the piece with its own reflection, revealing hidden angles . Pulled into a myzsterious and inciting space, nothing remains stable, a continous evolving plasticity and emotion are produced each time the viewer glimpses at the object. Each visual encounter is unique and ephemeral.
My work explores the relationship between light, space and visual perception.
Imagination takes an important part in the process, initiated by the optical depth. Observers experience introspection asthe subtle interaction of the piece provides a visual of them that may reflect on the darkness or light of human nature . Each instant produces an ephemeral pairing, allowing the inert piece to come to life in the eyes of the observer.
The result is a relationship between abstraction and realism, ephemeral aspects of our world, reflections of intimacy that offers a space for contemplation and finally a desire for beauty, poetry and seduction between the person and the art piece.
