PRESENCE IN ABSENCE
White is not empty. It carries the traces of everything that has been covered.
In this series, Alina Schiau brings color almost to silence. Often, a colored ground remains beneath the white and continues to vibrate through it. Sometimes, other canvases are collaged onto the surface. The layers are there, but hidden.
What seems absent reveals itself in the paint: a relief, a trace, a barely perceptible variation, an engraved phrase.
Absence has a presence
