Emma Godebska
FROM ACCUMULATION TO PURITY
Emma Godebska has lived and worked in Nîmes, in the Gard region, since 2012.
Born into a family of artists, she studied applied arts in London. Her training led her to work on materials, textures and colours, and to reflect on the imprint and trace.
In recent years, she has explored a path where the quest for the essence of painting is through the search for a refined gesture and a minimal pictorial language. It is a need to go to the essential, to focus on the here and now, to capture a light, a sensation, a moment.
She works on a white surface, most often leaving the background blank, willingly playing with the texture of the support which interacts with the colour. She approaches the latter by playing with the dilution of the paint, exploiting the effects of transparency or the accumulation of pigments. She favours the fluidity of the material and seeks in her gesture, the balance between tension and relaxation, concentration and spontaneity to reach the accuracy of the composition.
The painting is always inscribed in the centre of the support, floating in space, the margins remaining white. The superimposition of the elements and the effects of density on the borders and transparency in the centre of the motif give the drawing a sculptural dimension, the illusion of volumes floating in space. The colour patches are connected to each other creating several planes and a depth that speaks as much of space as of time.
These works, in their formal simplicity, confront the viewer with his or her own capacity for emotion and expression and invite him or her on a spiritual journey.
