NATALIA VELIT,
the Open Work
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The work of Natalia Velit is in some way a door opening onto hermeneutics. 
The artist doesn't order us, only gives us leads to follow in order to find out a riddle.
The work of art can't be reduced to being but seeking to origin. That's why, it has to arouse metamorphosis and interpretation. A plurality of meanings are being read.

Firstly, the paintings of Natalia Velit point to space, a distance to cover, a time to come.
Natalia Velit builds a double movement of limitation and of an opening to the reality.
The layout of the painting with its shades and cuts out, frames in a space and time area. But conversely, the apparition of colours is like a life surge, an ultimate endeavour to be freed from the canvas.

An escape in oneself, an escape out oneself are hence the double movement from which the being builds up and destroys itself. At the very moment when the world fades out, it rects itself.

Secondly, if one pays attention to the slightest details, the work of Natalia Velit conjures up another space, this time opening on the past, thanks to graffitis, traces of writing or else the use and collage of dated newspapers recounting a precise event.
The work reveals a truth that slips out of any control, brings out the spot of origin. We, therefore, have the feeling that we travel through the painting from an actual past location to another, imaginary and possible.
 
The pictoral technique of Natalia Velit both conjures up digging and disclosing. Indeed, at times, the artist gives the illusion she cuts in the canvas or brings about a split.

At time, she manufactures, thanks to crumpled paper, a sort of veil.
It only remains for us to "bolt" the door open, to undo the ties of the riddle and lift the veil.

It could be said, according to Merleau Ponty's phrase, that the painting of Natalia Velit celebrate "the riddle of the visible".
« T h e  O p e n  W o r k »
“Any work of art, even though it is a completed form and "closed" in its perfection as an accurately set organism is "open" at least in so far as it be interpreted in different ways without encroaching on its irreductible singularity.
To enjoy a work of art amounts to interpret or execute it anew, to make it come to a new life
in an original perspective”
H u m b e r t o  E c o
Everyone of them opens up a world and replays the given sense, whether through the sensitive representation of the idea or the presentation of the idea in a sensitive matter.
As Heidegger put it: "Yet, the work of art never introduces nothing and that is for the very reason that it has nothing to represent, being itself what creates first of all and what enters for the first time the open".
 

Anne-Julie Bémont 
(Paris, 1996)
PARIS, FRANCE
Updated: September 6th, 2000
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