The prism of life
Belgian painter and designer Vanessa Genachte lives between Brussels and Marrakech and creates works inspired by the living. She describes her self-taught journey through an unpredictable artistic education, just as her mind is unprejudiced. “I am a creative explorer in constant evolution. My job is to do something different every day”.
Her figurative painting has been greatly inspired by primitive art for its simplicity of lines and pure colors, but she is increasingly moving towards the representation of another reality between distortion and abstraction. An organic figuration.
The theme in her paintings and plant-based paper sculptures is the living, which she transcends, which she explores through the prism of the contemporary world. Finding the balance between shapes and colors, fullness and emptiness, and a certain idea of beauty.
“What I seek above all to communicate is an impression, an emotion through my work, which presupposes the idea of freedom: feeling rather than knowing. When a work touches us, it’s because we find something of ourselves.
The shape and the color
To create her works, Vanessa is primarily visual, drawing inspiration from contemporary culture as well as from wild nature. From the artificial as well as the essential. She works with AI to synthesize her ideas, like a mise en abyme, providing a sketch that will be reinterpreted by the AI and then used by Vanessa in another way.
A process in motion, like the living. The droste effect also exists in nature and is not new to the visual arts or architecture.
The color and stylization in the composition evoke a constant search for raw expression. Going to the simplest to find emotion. From intention to gesture in a few brushstrokes.
Multidisciplinary, she uses acrylic paint, inks, pastels, markers, and gold leaf. She paints on canvas or paper, and today explores 3D with her plant sculptures, which she makes overflow from the frame like a living work.
Vanessa expresses the symbiosis and connection between idea, gesture, and the representation of life. She creates in a perpetual movement, like a meditative breath between mind and body, and this energy is felt in her works.
