Sandra Fabie-Gfeller's works are based on the premise that from the moment we're born to the second before we die, we are in between the where-from and where-to. Time does not wait. While portraits and paintings attempt to summarize a time period into a stillness, the images are an attempt to follow time. This is a visual diary of a moving form-- gestures by a lone figure captured by the one-second shutter speed of a camera. The images thus reinterpreted in a painting.
Fabie-Gfeller explores the visual dimensions of the passage of time through oil paintings of blurred motion, captured initially in a series of photographs of dancers. She expounds her theme on canvas, articulating the image of movement and restlessness through an interplay of clear and turbid representations of the body extending in space. The result is a series of interesting visual play infused with a tension of unresolved motion, of the unpredictable passage of the kinetic.
Fabie-Gfeller has had six solo shows since 2003 and her works has been featured in a show in New York in 2003 and in the Larasati Auction late last year.
Sample Artwork:
My Time Has Infinite Space
Pastel & charcoal on paper
36 × 36 inches
2008
