In
the realms of fantasy: Aline Alagem in a solo show of hyper
femininity in a masculin gaze, Hagit
Peleg Rotem
Originally
published in Globes
Magazine,
10.03.2014
A
series of hyper realist paintings that deal with body image are
featured in Aline Alagem's new solo show
Aline
alagem deals with hard questions of seduction and submition, conquest
and impulse. In the center of her new show at Artstation gallery
stands a series of hyper realist paintings that deal with body image
and painted image, with the real and the phantasied.
Alagem
paints a blunt sexusual scene in cotton candy pinks, and smears
strokes of make up foundations, nail polish or lipstick, like those
temptingly photographed in fashion magazines, attempting to present
the “tangible core” of what the “right” feminine image is
made from. To these, Alagem attaches a pink mountain landscape that
compete on the viewer’s attention next to breast-hills and
nipple-peaks.
In
intensely vivid large scale paintings she suggests passion and
ecstasy, heights of beauty and sensation, next to emptiness and lack
of the longed catharsis. “I look for the balance between seduction
and decryption” Alagem tells Globes. “It's important for me to
maintain the viewers tension, the drive to keep exploring the work
and get to a non-decrypted place”.
This
is the key of understanding the logic in the non-logical, where a
pack of flamingos hide a porn scene; a luxury Dior logo behind a
galloping horse, perhaps as a symbol of bursting energy; or a Chanel
logo framing a couple of glamorous blondes, that while their faces
are concealed it is clear that they are in the middle of a sexual
act- from a masculine fantasy point of view.
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