Square Optics

30th May - 5th June 2022

Square Optics is the first solo exhibition presented by artist Jessie Balletta. 

Employing traditional etching techniques, such as rosin aquatint, the artist uses a square motif in blocked and tonal colour variations to explore the power of repetition. 

Repetition becomes meditation, meditation becomes ritual. The etching process and colour fields become private spaces for contemplation. Wassily Kandinsky observed, “Colour provokes a psychic vibration. Colour hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.” 

Square Optics is stripped back to its essential elements of colour and geometric form where no figurative narrative exists, allowing the viewer to project  their own meaning.

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