Katia Bourdarel
Katia Bourdarel’s seemingly mystical multimedia works transport one into a fictional world of fairy tales. They are skilfully drawn and painted imaginary worlds whose subtly arranged motifs suggest “prettiness”; but in fact the spectators are spirited away into a world where good and evil rub shoulders—a world believed to be long lost but actually very present. Her pictures tell a mysterious story, of loveliness and fear, affection and abandonment, where one constantly oscillates between the apparent poles of good and evil so that everything remains unresolved. Katia Bourdarel is extremely good at interweaving strands of narrative that offer us no closure but several possibilities for further imaginative investigations. Her watercolours invite the spectators to delve into a new dimension. They are picture stories—fairy tales without beginning or end.
