ISABELLE BORGES

(*1966 in Salvador, Brazil; lives and works in Berlin, Germany)

The main theme of Isabel Borges’ artistic work is space and its perception, whereby she concentrates on the interplay of line, surface and space. This applies to her paper objects and photo collages as well as to her spatial installations. As the artist’s geometric vocabulary of forms makes clear, her artistic interest is primarily in the basic forms of geometry, but seemingly arbitrary forms from nature also structure her pictures. But Borges is not interested in the geometry of pure form without any possible illusionary space. Quite the opposite. Rather, she is interested in the interstices created by the ‘folding’ of surfaces and corresponding lines, which transform her paintings, but above all her paper cuts, collages and installations, into associative spaces. To underline the sensual experience of her pictorial spaces, the artist also combines her minimalist aesthetic with surprisingly placed color accents.