VW Beetle Painting

This oil and mixed-media American artist, photographer and videographer lives and works in Paris. Inspired by the contrast between American and French cultures, Aviva Brooks explores the interstices. She works on the tension that separates – or unites – the visual and the written, the action and the thought, the energetic immediacy and the distant elegance, the present and the past, childhood and adulthood, American black or white and European shades of grey. On her way, she collects artefacts from the passage of time, thus documenting the tipping point where an era becomes the “past”: telephone booths, public benches, Volkswagen "combis", neon signs...