Andrea Breinbauer: New Clouds

The series of oil paintings on canvas, refer to a generalised sense of instability (in a broad sense). They constantly evoke an unsteady ground, eruptions, smoke, water, where the interior spaces blend with the exterior (or vice versa) from a sometimes playful and dreamlike perspective. The limits become blurred and nature seems to overflow or seep through what appears to be different museum rooms. The frames represented oscillate between containing pictorial representations or acting as a window to the outside.

The collage-like compositions reinforce this perception of imbalance, of an unraveling tangle, of distances approaching and moving away, of a confusion that at certain times clouds us. However, the figures (people) depicted in these scenes seem immutable, presenting themselves as simple spectators of their own disaster.

On the other hand, a series of oil paintings on paper (which resemble analogue photographs) arise from personal memories that appeal to a collective imaginary, occasionally mirroring the compositions of the paintings on canvas.

These paintings, mounted on the old pages of a photographic album, also touch on the same themes regarding nature, proximity, distance, etc., but they do so from a single lens, appealing to a sort of simpler past, which contrasts with the surrealistic tones of the scenes depicted on canvas.