The prism of life
Belgian painter and designer Vanessa Genachte lives between Brussels and Marrakech, creating works inspired by life. She depicts her self-taught journey through an artistic education without formatting as her mind is without prejudice. “I am a creative explorer in constant evolution. My job is to do something else every day.”
His figurative painting was greatly inspired by the primitive arts for the simplicity of the lines and the pure colors, but it is moving more and more towards the representation of another reality between distortion and abstraction. An organic representation.
The subject in her paintings or her plant paper sculptures is the living that she transcends, that she explores through the prism of the contemporary world. Find the balance between shapes and colors, fullness and emptiness and a certain idea of beauty.
“What I seek above all to communicate is an impression, an emotion through my work, which presupposes the idea of freedom: feeling rather than knowing. When a work touches us, it’s because we find something of ourselves.
The living is infinite
To create her works, Vanessa uses AI to synthesize her ideas, like a mise en abyme of her work, she provides a sketch which will be reinterpreted by the AI and then used by Vanessa in another way. A process that is infinite like life. The droste effect is not new in the visual arts or in architecture and also exists in nature.
Color is essential in her work and inspiration often comes from a shine, a nuance, a light that she wishes to capture.
Multidisciplinary, she uses acrylic paint, inks, pastels, markers, gold leaf, she paints on canvas or paper and today explores 3D with her plant sculptures that she makes overflow from the frame like a living work.
Vanessa expresses the symbiosis and the link between the idea, the gesture and the representation of life. She creates in a perpetual movement like a meditative breathing between the mind and the body and this energy is felt in her works.
