That's how the light gets in

That’s how the light gets in

Grid, 2019

Daily Bread, 2020

Errata, 2020

Carrarra Crack, 2020

Her new project leads us to reflect on some cultural aspects prompted by the experience in Asia. The importance of emptiness, or of white, as a diverse interpretation space that alters the centrality of the sign, the gesture typical of Western art. It raises a different level of awareness which somehow questions the authority, superiority, and omnipotence of the artist. The white of the Chinese Taoist tradition that seems to oppose Eastern mysticism like that of Shitao to European hedonism is of great inspiration to Isabel Devos.

Just like the work That’s how the light gets in which turns a typical subject of her production (the landscape generated by the action of water on concrete) into its negative. Or again, the work What if white was the dark side in which the search for white as a subject is obtained with the cyanotype technique. As per T’ai Chi T’u tradition, Isabel opposes the principle of Yang (white) with the one of Yin (black), well represented by the artwork on lightbox Errata.

Here respecting a vertical vision of the landscape, Isabel is inspired by the rusted surfaces of the doors to represent cloudy skies. A work that once again takes up the vein of the sublimation of the landscape, typical of her early works. A detail of a surface is sufficient to recreate a view (veduta). The landscape is everywhere in Isabel Devos' work.

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