Press release by Marie Bonnal

Wh-ight
an aerial exploration

Seserko’s art is intense and volatile. The title Wh-ight embodies this ambiguity in the play of words. She is a magician of the illusion. Her work imbues the reflection. Floating in the air are subtle coloured lenses displayed on Perspex shelves. Floating in the floor is imbedded ultramarine blue sand.

Wh-ight is a mysterious invite to the uncertainty of the boundaries. The blue rectangle has a magnetic appeal. We feel like turning around to discover the deepness of the filling, whether it is solid or loose, touching the texture to find out the consistence and colour, looking scrupulously to encounter any metamorphosis. Pure illusion, it happens to be 1cm of sand, coloured in a shiny blue which stay in your hand as an imprint and slightly offside borders.

Looking up, fixed on the white walls are optical lenses subtly exposed on transparent supports, and reflecting shadows on the surface of the walls. They are like repetitive signs of physical anomaly and paradoxically signs of a pastel coloured view of a filtered world. The lenses are related to the blurness, blindness or sharpness of our sight, and our memories.

Wh-ight echoes the disrupted world today, full of chaotic movements with a slight reflection of hope. But it echoes as the rupture and instability of the prevalent condition of migrant. It is an emblematic way of installing objects and a strong response to the uncertainty of the identity.

Seserko wears her identity as a visible composition or as an illusion. Her work translates the adjustment of a cultural identity left behind to a new one to embrace. She also acts as a magician delivering a minimalist installation unlimited in its metaphorical representations.

Marie Bonnal
July 2003.