3° N, 101° E.
Here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, climate change is not an abstraction. Temperatures rise. Rains arrive with new violence. Landscapes change faster than we can record them.
Living in this — for years — has shaped the way I work.
I do not paint protest. I paint attention.
Each layer of oil and pigment on canvas is a decision to slow down. To observe what is disappearing before it disappears.
The works that come from this place carry its heat, its weight, its instability. Not as illustration. As material memory.
Atmospheric abstraction is my response. Not a solution. A sustained act of looking.
An artist does not have to have answers to take the world seriously.
Claire Lassonnery
French contemporary abstract artist
Atmospheric abstraction