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拍品專文
Janet Balbarona's Rendered Mind Games (Lot 2473) is an evocative example of how people create idealised versions of the ones they love in their heads. The nebulous relationship between a man and a woman is framed within an oval diptych composed of mirroring twin portaits, uncanny in their resemblance.
Rendered in similar color palettes, the paired panels contains a myriad of recurring elements: the blue-and-white gingham fabric of his shirt wraps around her shoulders like a shawl, the same white amulet hangs from both their necks, cigarettes dangle from their fingers, a similarly hued blush defines their cheeks.
Like an amorphous fantasy woven from memories and invented moments, Balbarona's images merge and shift until a story emerges from the details. A scarlet macaw, brilliant wings unfurled in one panel, is resurrected as a the rich ornaments billowing from the girl's head, and blue and red feather falling out of the frame in a swipe of the artist's brush. Wistful and forlorn, the star-crossed lovers, each made in the image of the other, appear to be caught in stasis, awaiting their happy ending.
Balbarona, very much an artist of the present, is a teller of open-ended tales and a keen observer of the human condition. In Rendered Mind Games, she conveys the pensive regret of someone thinking about the one that got away.
Rendered in similar color palettes, the paired panels contains a myriad of recurring elements: the blue-and-white gingham fabric of his shirt wraps around her shoulders like a shawl, the same white amulet hangs from both their necks, cigarettes dangle from their fingers, a similarly hued blush defines their cheeks.
Like an amorphous fantasy woven from memories and invented moments, Balbarona's images merge and shift until a story emerges from the details. A scarlet macaw, brilliant wings unfurled in one panel, is resurrected as a the rich ornaments billowing from the girl's head, and blue and red feather falling out of the frame in a swipe of the artist's brush. Wistful and forlorn, the star-crossed lovers, each made in the image of the other, appear to be caught in stasis, awaiting their happy ending.
Balbarona, very much an artist of the present, is a teller of open-ended tales and a keen observer of the human condition. In Rendered Mind Games, she conveys the pensive regret of someone thinking about the one that got away.