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Bataille aux cratères (Battle at the Craters), 2014
Ophélie Asch
Warsaw, b. 1973
Bataille aux cratères (Battle at the Craters), 2014
Acrylic on paper
Promised gift of the Foundation Ink
While the images presented in many of Ophélie Asch's paintings are structurally and visually ambiguous, Bataille aux craters is one of a series of works that have been compared to images of ruins—they often appear to depict structures that are either shattered or crushed, or are reminiscent of fossils. Asch creates a vision of a dreamlike world infused with things like interwoven branches and twigs, subterranean mycorrhizal networks, and frantic swarms of insects. It is not so much an image of the visible world as an image of the energies within and underlying the visible world.
© Ophélie Asch, photo: Maurice Aeschimann, Geneva