Galerie Claude Lemand

NADIA SAIKALI, TIMELESS SPACES, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONS.

Gérard Xuriguera, Nadia Saikali.

Nourished by rem­i­nis­cences sealed in the Middle-East, glo­ri­fied by the mediter­ranean light and tem­pered by the french mea­sure, emerges an art of europeen essence in spite of inevitable con­no­ta­tions. An art infinitely shaded, com­bining wrin­kled wefts and muf­feled breathing, strikes and stumped scum­bles, cuts and nar­rowed open­ings sta­bilised by ver­ti­cals inner­vated within the tex­ture’s flu­idity or as more recently, con­ceived by inter­de­pen­dant plans on dif­ferent levels on which have been added meta-signs and ideograms with strokes and gaps, a flowing and com­pact world, some­times severe and prickly, other­times brightly coloured, always har­mo­nious.

If the use of won­dering ges­ture, intu­ition are here claimed for, by oppo­si­tion to con­struc­tion erected in dogma, it nev­er­the­less com­bines with the watchful con­trol of thought, spir­i­tual prac­tice teaming up with lyrism and archi­tec­tural, in a syn­thesis restricting haz­ardous games and erasing unwel­come nos­talgia.

The equa­tion painting-memory in other words, the link to real life, thus stands out in N. Saïkali’s works, emerging from human reality, a well thought chro­matic and graphic inter­pen­e­tra­tion of plaited mod­u­la­tions con­veying a semantic issued from the depths of con­scious­ness.

Beyond words, what stands out from this approach, is obvious plea­sure to paint, to sug­gest emo­tions and feel­ings by using imper­cep­tible signs, along which roots, his­tory, mature expe­ri­ence, stand out­lined and for which to be fully under­stood, one has to achieve still­ness within.