Natacha Donzé, Shields, 2021

2021

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

160 × 60 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156062

In Natacha Donzé's Shields (2021) introduces a multi-layered scenery. The artist uses air-brush techniques to create a liquid shadowy world in which the view is lost behind accurate forms within a deep pictorial plane. The painting is composed of three vertical canvases, each framed in black, in which a pattern of five black holes is repeated in the center of the picture. The panels are reminiscent of plexiglas shields used by the police force and form a kind of wall that separates the viewer from the purple-reddish billowing mass. Like insects on a pane of glass, individual particles sit luminously on the surface of the canvas and seem to have slipped, multiplying, from one cosmic space into another. In addition to its shielding effect, the surface acts as a transitory element from which an attraction emanates, drawing viewers to the other side into this nurturing liquid sphere. The artist cleverly plays with different levels of perception, raising questions of boundaries and belonging while floating in a boundless galactic atmosphere. Donzé's works often address images from collective memory, citing fragments of institutional, political, and commercial entities recontextualized in hierarchically abscent aesthetic assemblages.