Vicky Christou | Elemental
Vicky Christou | Elemental
3045 Granville Street
July 3-15, 2021
In this new body of paintings, Vicky Christou has symbolically interpreted and expressed a color system associated to and inspired by the five classical elements traditionally categorized as water, earth, fire, air and ether (the void).
The characteristics within these elemental systems are factors which simultaneously embody simple explanations of nature, and the complexity of all matter observed by our five senses.
The platform of the grid allows for a minimal purity in which each element can be associated, such as water seen as a patterned wavelike formation or light grey to be symbolic of air or stone (earth), each element pared down to its essence.