Anne-Lise Coste
Vessels, 2019Oil and spray paint on canvas344 × 480 cm (135 7⁄16 × 188 31⁄32 inches)
The dislocated condition between seeing what one wants to represent and not seeing it leads Anne-Lise Coste to produce the series Vessels.
A certain feeling of melancholia is conveyed through the repetition of elementary figures that at first glance we don’t fully comprehend, but that we can follow in emotional terms, making us accomplices of Coste’s inner world with a sensitivity as heartbreaking as it is poetic. In the tracing of these forms one can appreciate the artist’s hand making the painting: it is Anne-Lise Coste herself who has not disappeared in these works of immense solitude.
