Alina Schiau engages in a pictorial reflection on the thresholds of perception. Deploying a sensitive abstraction, she summons color and form as agents of revelation — not of what is seen, but of what surfaces. Her painting does not seek to represent the world, but to transfigure it into a visual language freed from certainties.
Here, the work emerges in the interval: between saturation and erasure, between chromatic density and formal silences. The surface becomes a place of tension, vibration, resonance. Through successive layers, through partial coverings, the artist composes an unstable space where the visible often arises from what has been concealed. It is not composition that structures the space, but the interior rhythm of colored masses, their own breathing, their capacity to bring forth the invisible.
The gaze is invited to free itself from any interpretive scheme. The experience is first sensorial, almost physiological, then progressively introspective. By suspending certainties, by disturbing landmarks, Alina Schiau opens a path toward another form of presence — fragmentary, shifting, paradoxical. Spectra is not a manifesto. It is an experimentation, a poetic initiative that shapes the ineffable: the luminous persistence of what cries out in silence.
Lucie Braconnier, Gallerist and Curator 2025