Luis Adelantado is pleased to present Bad Bad Not Good/ Malo malo no bueno, a solo show by Brazilian artist Camila Oliveira Fairclough, in which she reframes some key elements of her work, linking the frictions between abstraction and figuration, gesture and language.
His paintings consist of monochromatic fields that are literally pierced by words, so that the tension between figure and background, as well as the idea of abstract space, further amplifies the poetic qualities of his work. Fairclough’ s painting is human, and this fact is apparent in his usually imperfect strokes and fields of colour, where the manual gesture bursts against figurative logic, introducing chaos beyond the order of the visible.
Similarly, there is a link between writing and painting, where what is reproduced is confirmed as a commentary on a pictorial gesture in which Fairclough becomes the stroke that is inscribed therein, evidencing the performative nature of the process that lies behind the act of painting.
Finally, the textuality of his paintings never ceases to question the strange relationship of antinomy that exists between image and text, and whose multiple readings respond to the particular way in which we organise a discourse within a complex and heterogeneous medium such as painting, where the image possesses a grammar that may well exercise its formal or semantic dominance in the same way as a text does. After all, writing is very much like painting, and vice versa.