Opening: Wednesday September 6th 5pm
In the late 1960s, Marie Orensanz introduced a pivotal element into her work: the word. "Art is an exercise in thought (...) that helps us to be happy", says Orensanz. This stance places her at the heart of historical philosophical quests; yet she does not align with pre-existing perspectives; instead, she focuses on the development of the transformative capacity of the symbolic, thereby facilitating further reflection. In fact, happiness might lie in the very ability to think.
In a world of slogans and clichés, where communication is saturated with aggressive capital letters that yell at those who read them, demanding consumption, creating the fiction that they must choose the best, disturbing the senses to control their drifts, Orensanz opts to work with short sentences, only in lower case. She uses a simple, slightly rounded typography, whose lines are rather thin and whose empty spaces let in the atmosphere surrounding the object that contains them.
Marie, a contemporary humanist, an advocate of an open discourse, wishes to leave her mark and invites us to think.
Diana B. Wechsler
