Short-documentary realized for the contemporary art gallery Pilar Corrias where during the 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice a series of new paintings, made by Christina Quarles, are presented.
Quarles presents six new paintings that, via an excess of gestures in jarring pigments, unravel abstract figures that exceed beyond the moulds of the conventional constitution of a body. With a background in graphic design, the artist pairs the fortuitous effects of dripping and seemingly improvisational rapid brushstrokes with digital manipulation and laser-cut stencils, creating defined outlines to plan and form composition. The sinuous bodies contort, conjuring a sense of intimacy and fluidity, of interchangeable existences rendering the impossibility of outlining singular beings.