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On March 2nd, Cell63 artgallery invites you to join our wonderland of mystical tales visualized by the infamous storytellers Angela Loveday and Lys Lydia Selimalhigazi .
The echo of an untuned piano, in a big, empty house. Ghosts coming in darkness to our bed. This exhibition will showcase a series of artworks which inevitably present their beholders with narratives that frequently cause mixed feelings and which are often perceived differently by each individual. In many cases beauty, romance,melancholy, dismay and curiosity are terms that come up at the same time when the works of these visual storytellers are being discussed. Both this young ladies, by photography or by illustration, showing those kind of emotions that society can no longer feel, and dreams that people just gave up.
Opening Friday 2nd March 2012 at 19h30 with improvisation dance performance by COX and body performance by Nike Brass
Hardly I can explain the emotions that lead me to realize my works. They live independently by myself and they show up in my head in the middle of the night. Theyre ghosts coming in darkness to my bed. Is not me creating them, they just live through my eyes. My works are part of a process leading to the very spirits transmutation, like in alchemy. It the discovery of a new reality that forces the observer to take a new position.
Angela has been studying Photography for twelve years, shes an artist by choice, and vocation. And nobody can stop her. She shoots herself, through the worlds experience, and the world, filtered by her emotions. She uses photogpraphy to give back to people an inner universe, that is in conflict with the societys voyeuristic approach. Her personal truth, through the photographic illusion, creates a paradox, merging itself with the worlds truth, with its secret spread of appearance, without being caged by it.
LYS LYDIA SELIMALHIGAZI
I love all fairy tales because of their ambiguity. An old fashion way to tell a story containing a creepy moral hidden inside, as well as all kind of symbols coming mainly from the opposite moral perspective. And as I play with those symbols as well as I do with oneiric or mythological figures, my characters have to be red as allegories themselves, representative of the dualistic nature of fairy-tales and human hypocrisy self.
Lys Lydia Selimalhigazi is a very young art designer from Paris, France. She is also a graphic artist and exhibit her work from Paris to New York. Her work has been conveyed by various magazines and webzines, such as Stone Magazine, Iniciativa colectiva, Nikau mag and recently in the last number of IDN International Magazine.
She works by mixing drawn and written elements, then scanned with polaroid photographs, collages, old style pictures, engravings. She loves to play with symbols and strange blinded characters to let people enter her oniric world and found their own answer to her stories.
