Gemma Carson: Can't See

About the artist:

Gemma Carson (b. 1994) graduated from MFA Painting with Cum Laude from The Frank Mohr Institute in Netherlands. Painting is a spiritual act for Carson. Her artistic practice is the result of an intuition familiar with what lies beyond the everyday. Just like a dance set in motion by opposite forces, visibility and invisibility, figuration and abstraction, coalesce in her works. These makings revolve around faces and gazes. When pulls and pushes are balanced in their constant dynamism an image can appear, outlined and open-ended at once. Carson listens to the different planes that give depth to our reality, aware of how past, present and future can coexist, blended with memories and emotions. Her practice comes from recurrent visits to a place where flashbacks can happen and imagination and otherness overlap.

In-betweenness is the dimension that Carson explores and re-actualises within every gesture. It is a threshold, an interval, a space filled with contacts and distances; it is a place where gaps touch. Her attention is captured by the energy that makes nothing a felt presence, and silence a song. Invisible forces guide her path between doubt and confusion, each step caressed by underwater currents. There is more to everything around us: this is Carson's belief. This exists in the form of ghostly presences, or dreams, or intuitions.