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'A Hair Under My Skin' on display.
Close-up on 'A Hair Under My Skin'.
Close-up on 'A Hair Under My Skin'.
Close-up on 'A Hair Under My Skin'.
Close-up on 'A Hair Under My Skin'.

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A Hair Under My Skin Drawing

Marijah Bac Cam

France

Drawing, Graphite on Paper

Size: 12.6 W x 9.4 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Mixed media on fine art canvas paper Hahnemühle 300g. Delivered not frame. 'A Hair Under My Skin' is part of my new series of drawing/painting 'Under My Skin', on the subject of the subtle sensations felt under our cellular landscape. It is an abstract view of what lives deep under our skin. This series tries to respond to the quote of Paul Valéry: "What is deeper in man is the skin." ("Ce qu'il y a de plus profond en l'homme, c'est la peau.").

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Drawing:

Graphite on Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

12.6 W x 9.4 H x 0.1 D in

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The work of Marijah Bac Cam questions the Memory of the Living through the Languages of the Feminine Principle (creative principle of Nature) by means of drawing, painting and increasingly photography and video. What does this chaos of fullness and emptiness mean, enhanced with dots, curves, golden wefts and gestural writing? In the artist's painting we perceive a Living being organized before our eyes, starting with the diffusion of black ink. These dark masses mingle with another color to symbolize the different elements, air, water, fire, earth, ether. Suddenly an organic mesh forms on the surface, connected to the misty depth. It is a question of reversal, as if to lead our gaze towards an inner world, that of the organs, tissues, vessels of an unrepresented body. These drawings express more sensibly an intuitive word in a vegetal and vibratory atmosphere that are our buried memories. They are the representation of the original past in a form that is no longer mental but metaphorical. Graffiti sometimes float here and there, like a palimpsest as if to inscribe a forgotten verbal dimension and question the meaning of forms. Her work evokes images that are almost figurative but difficult to identify. It's a question of everyone's point of view, seen from the sky or underwater, in macro or even in a wide shot. This collective memory seems to define and tell terrestrial and extra-terrestrial landscapes. Does Nature have a universal language that hides in our memory?

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