What if an artwork truly begins at the moment I deliver it?
Perhentian was chosen during my latest exhibition, and I thank the collectors for their unwavering trust. I delivered it myself, and along the way I caught myself thinking that something was shifting. It was leaving my world to enter theirs.
I installed it in a pharmaceutical laboratory in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A place where real work happens. Where people observe. Where they search. Where they begin again. A precise, demanding, living space. And on the wall right beside it, there was already one of my works, chosen last year.
Two artworks. Two different years. The same place. Like two chapters meeting in the same room.
A quiet presence. Something that accompanies the days without making a sound.
Atmospheric abstraction in oil and pigment on canvas. This is what a painting can do when it enters a life rather than a collection.
Claire Lassonnery
French contemporary abstract artist
Atmospheric abstraction