Valerie JollyUsing layers and layers of tissue paper mixed with water and pva, Valerie Jolly casts objects, fragments of rooms or entire spaces that she then peels off like a skin once the material has dried. Her work deals with the ideas of absence and impermanence. Her sculptures are an echo, a trace, a vaporous evocation of the original.For URBANBODIES 2, she is presenting Interior, a fragment of a domestic interior, cast in tissue paper and lit from inside. The ghostly quality of the lit scene is a stark contrast with the bustling urban environment of Greenwich High Street. Passers-by are invited to peer inside this glowing, translucent echo of a domestic landscape. Interior could either be an apparition or an image in the process of vanishing, like a fading memory. The ethereal, frozen-like scene hovers between presence and absence, reminiscence and disappearance, reality and dream. Inducing a sense of melancholy andd nostalgia, Valerie Jolly invites each viewer to project his own imagination, his own memories. CVBorn in Paris, lives and works in London.Central Saint Martin’s, B.A. (Honours) Fine Art, 2006.
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