Isabelle de Kleine

Through her practice, Isabelle de Kleine explores the complexities of our fragmented perceptions and memories.

Says de Kleine of her work, “We are collages of experience. Mosaics of memories. Architects of reality. My paintings explore the flawed nature of humanity that is due to our biases; memory loss and the shapeshifting nature of memory, the inconsistencies that exist within us and the creation of our own realities.

“'Eroded' delves into the abstraction of the female form through a blend of cropped composition, intersecting shapes, and dynamic colour rendering. Areas of realism are contrasted to inverted colours and form to represent multiple planes of perspective. The jagged shapes and granulating pigments are reminiscent of shards of stone with areas of artificial and digital hues disrupting and weaving throughout the painting as a representation of the symbiosis of the digital and natural."