Helena Foster
To See Beyond Seeing
Inspired by the way literature can track the passage of time and its effects on the reader, Condo has created a trio of large-scale portraits of female muses, erudite and canonical. Each of these is dominated by a color that conveys mood with an iconographic intensity. For example, ‘Transitional Portrait in Turquoise and Gold’ (2022) depicts within its single frame, where the image is read from left to right, the collapsing of time in the passage of a life. The effect of the work is that of a time-lapse film. Condo observes, ‘The irony is, that as we age, we get younger in our minds and spirits, even though the external view of us is completely different than what’s in our heads. The tragic and the beautiful come together when perceived from the perspective of the viewer.’
about
Helena Foster was born in Nigeria in 1988 and lives and works in London, UK. Having graduation from Camberwell College of Art in 2010, Foster was awarded the Thamesmead Texas residency (London) in 2020 and the Terre Sans Frontièr|And’Art residency (Morocco) in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY (2023), French Riviera, London, UK (2022), FF Projects, London, UK (2022), Brick Lane, London, UK (2022), The Sunday Paper, London, UK (2022).
The dream-like characters and scenes in Foster’s paintings vary from daily life to verging on the mystical. They are concerned with psychological or spiritual states, and subjects’ agency in those circumstances. These heightened feelings are compounded by Foster’s rich use of colour and layering of paint, which often results in figures becoming framed by, yet sometimes indistinguishable from, their surroundings.
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