Renate Faulhaber
Visual Artist
Gestalt Therapist
My approach
The movement of the body
and its dialogue
with the visual arts
My artistic research path travels from sculpture to multimedia, theatre and dance and leads me to pictorial expression.
The approach consists of:
Explore the material rather than impose a preconceived representation.
Look for the origin of the answer in the body and work on its expression,
in its trace with its quality.
The media
Examples:
The photo: I jump on the horizon at night, pieces of mirror stuck on my black knitwear.
A flashlight follows me and reflects the luminous traces of my movements.
I'm part of the universe movement, I recognize galaxies!
The film, the performance: a soft fabric allows the movements and shapes of my body to be made and undone, thus discovering our link with the vegetal and animal kingdom.
Canvas
Without a specific objective, without external support, with my eyes closed, I place the trace of an energetic state on the canvas.
The expression takes place in fluidity, without figurative purpose.
Driven by the desire to feel first and see afterwards, I discover that my movements are part of a movement larger than myself.
As in calligraphy, which is a memory of "old walks", I try to connect my own movements to those of nature.
Let the line make the space vibrate and let the space give its breath to the line that the two interweave in the same movement.
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The body and the movement
Enter into the matter and seek to become the very movement of that matter.
My body is my starting point.
I explore its own space, its relationship with the surrounding space,
the movements he draws and their traces.
Can I recognize my connection to the animals in our skeleton?
and that of plants in the way we move?
Can I find the elements in my movements?
move like water,
like volcanic lava, fire,
the earth, the wind?
Drawing
I transcribe the traces of the body's movements,
by relying on sound recordings of voices or sounds of nature or the city:
on large formats to keep the body space, I try to make visible the sound that passes through me.
« …learning to paint is nothing more than learning to be - to find in everything,
and first of all in oneself - the principle of essential Unity.»
François Cheng
