2023 | Marie-Claire Blais | TORONTO: Noises went silent

Using a colour palette decidedly reminiscent of twilight and dawn, Blais visualizes air currents in perpetual flux, as the instants when stillness turns to uncertainty. The same pinks, yellows and blues make up Giovanni Antonio Fasolo’s cloud fresco on the ceiling of Teatro Olimpica in Vicenza, Italy. With Blais’s interest in the freeform of the cloud as the intermediate construction permitting us to connect the physical with the metaphysical, her new works stir up the invisible, changeable forces of nature that interrupt Fasolo’s pristine sky of eternal quietude.