Art Exhibitions

Ellipses—those quiet, suspended intervals within language—serve as a profound framework for Marais's exploration of time, memory, and perception. Just as an ellipsis marks a pause in text, inviting contemplation and unfinished thought, her work inhabits the liminal spaces between experience and reflection, presence and absence.

 

"The concerns of my practice are found primarily in my fascination with the atmosphere within familiar domestic spaces. Solitary moments... when dust settles and light touches. Time, evidence and absence. A juncture, an instant, captured... just before or just after. A lingering tension or anticipation. The vibration within a quiet, still moment: a shimmer, a shadow and quiet exhalation." - Odette Marais

 

Marais's paintings are an evocative response to her surroundings, guided by an intuitive engagement with process, mark-making, and material exploration. These imagined tableaus act as a means of deciphering fleeting moments, emerging through the interplay of layered textures and shifting surfaces. Each composition unfolds as an accumulation of visual evidence, where traces of prior gestures inform the evolving dialogue of the work. More than mere depictions, her paintings are meditations—anchored in solitude and contemplation— inviting quiet introspection.

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