Dirty Windows is the title Carelyna has given to her latest exhibition of work, which opened at her ArtCare gallery on January 20th, 2025.
Located on an open-sided platform, the exhibition comprises eleven monochrome / sepia-tinged studies depicting scenes looking through windows that have seen better days (as one might suspect from the title).
However, To take thing purely at face value in this way would be to miss the point; this is a tour de force of art as metaphor; each image presents a scene in which the presentation of the piece is as important as the image it presents: the grainy, almost scratched appearance suggesting a mix of age and dream-like or quality.
What “Dirty Windows” could mean: a diffuse border between reality and illusion, between lie and truth; a way to create appearances that can protect us against hard-to-bear truths; the human being caught in the drama of life, when one has to repeat to oneself that dirt feels real, but it’s not true; the dirt on the glass is fleeting, it is not our nature, and only a stain to overcome.
– Carelyna, describing Dirty Windows
In other words, these are pieces intended for direct, personal interpretation; one formed out of experience, memories – good and bad -, imagination and outlook. They encourage both introspection and reflections on the the cyclical nature of experience and growth – and the ever-present opportunities for the latter to bring us new opportunities and new horizons. They filter through the grime and necessities of the everyday like sunlight through an aging, dirty window; a reminder that it is in our nature to overcome, to thrive beyond the now, and whatever might currently weigh us down with doubt and / or regret.
Offered with a degree of interactivity, Dirty Windows does not require exposition her; it should be seen first-hand and allowed to speak to each of us. Recommended.
SLurl Details
- Dirty Windows, ArtCare Gallery (Emotion, Moderate)
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