ARTISTS / FIONA KEMP

Profile

I am moved to paint the object in the photograph because I want to get closer to the memory time and memory space that it embodies.  Painting can be heightened perception.  To see things that are not visible with a cursory glance but to also see things with a cursory glance that cannot be seen in focus.  How does that object embody Proust and Proustian memory?  Proust believed that memory is by nature incomplete.  Moreover that it is essential to embrace imperfect, fleeting and disconnected images for true memory to occur.  That is my interest in painting this object in this photograph.


Exhibitions

Remembrance of Things Present (09.02.2006 to 25.02.2006)


Works

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Invite, 2006 by Fiona Kemp

Invite, 2006

Remembrance of Things Present, 2006 by Fiona Kemp

Remembrance of Things Present, 2006

oil on canvas

150x100