Natacha Donzé, Gathering into order, 2020

2020

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

300 × 440 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155766

In the large-format painting “Gathering into Order” (2020), a grid of dark lines runs across an orange background, dividing the four canvases into individual sections. In the upper part of the picture, as well as in the lower corners, dark spots spread synchronously, giving the impression of indented screens and flowing chemicals making their way through their technical shell in search of an exit. At the same time, the view opens up, as if through a window into a foggy and hot atmosphere filled with smoke. Small fluorescent particles shimmer in front of the apparent window pane, glowing from the pictorial space. Due to the size and structure of “Gathering into Order”, the painting appears like an architectural element that breaks through the surface of the painting and forms a space in which a post-apocalyptic spectacle takes place. In fact, Donzé refers to the sci-fi film “Blade Runner 2049,” which is set in a destroyed city and characterized by the orange light of a desolate landscape of rubble. Here, she references the windows of an abandoned casino where two rival main characters meet, thus alluding to a world beyond human civilization in which life is taking on a new form. In her works, Donzé often draws on fragments or architectural details from pop culture and our capitalist society, transforming them into her own visual language and shedding light on power structures. Her works are characterized by this iconographic complexity, which is not clearly legible and which she uses to question political, commercial, and institutional systems, as well as the viewing habits of our time, embedding fragments of these orders in her visual worlds without hierarchy.