Galerie P6 Berlin is pleased to present 'Interference Pigment', an exhibition of Polymonotype Silkscreen works by artist Sadie Weis. These works offer a spectrum of imagery, including magical science, otherworldly artefacts, talismans, and curious space objects emerging from beyond the atmosphere of the natural world and from the artist’s dreams.
Inspired by the the lustrous pigments that Weis uses in all of her work, interference pigment, the surface of her works absorb specific light wavelengths, split and bend light through multiple reflections offering illuminated depth and an interference in the viewer’s perception.
Part mystical science/ part fantasy, the works in ‘Interference Pigment’ are also engaged with Jean Baudrillard’s concept of ‘Simulacra’ – something that replaces reality with its own representation – itself, a unique force independent of its origin. IN this approach, Weis plays with the reality of what a painting is and what a silkscreen can be, as she creates a hybrid of painting and silkscreen printmaking (typically done in simulated multiple editions) through the process of printing through a blank silkscreen, her own method of printmaking, deemed Polymonotype. The artist mixes all of her colours from dry and interference pigments and a transparent base, so that each piece has it’s own unique composition from origin to completion.
Artwork can already be a simulation of the visions in one’s mind, emulated into something tactile, a magic reality. How does a work or concept evolve and change when built up through blank space? How can depth arise out of flatness? For ‘Interference Pigment’, the artist is looking to blur the dimensions between reality and fiction. She works to free these concepts from their existing genres, and move them towards something new or ‘hyper-real’, which leads to the question – is the fusion of art/science some form of modern magic?
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