Motion Sickness
Nicole Tijoux, Madrid, 2024
Nicole Tijoux (Santiago, 1981) explores water as a veil that distorts bodies and perception, questioning the nature of reality itself. Influenced by artists such as David Hockney and Joaquín Sorolla, her earlier work focused on the optical transformations of submerged figures.
In Motion Sickness, she moves beyond physical distortion to examine how memory, emotion, and the mind reshape what we see. Through a method combining chance and structure—layering multiple scenes and perspectives—her paintings collapse time and space into fluid, multidimensional compositions.
The result is a form of liquid figurative abstraction, where reality appears unstable, as if constantly shifting beneath the surface.
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