JHB | Jacqueline H. Botquelen

Through the Opacity of Memory

By Veronica Cuomo

Like the French philosopher and art critic, Louis Marin proposed in 1989, the storia occurs in modern representation, from the articulation between reflexive opacity and transitive transparency. JHB oscillates effortlessly between them with graceful proficiency. In a pilgrimage through the opacity of memory, these mysterious fragments of consciousness become metaphors of the path Botquelen follows; it is a search for the ultimate essence of her art, materialized in the sophisticated manipulation of millenarian materials in an attempt to resist fading into oblivion.