Isabelle Borges
05.09.2025 - 18.10.2025
Woven Fields
Galerie Heike Strelow
Isabelle Borges - Woven Fields In her exhibition "Woven Fields", Isabelle Borges presents a series of works in which painting, geometry, structure and observation of nature combine to form a complex visual fabric. Borges, a Brazilian artist based in Berlin, explores in her art the relationship between space, order and perception - always in search of a balance between construction and intuition.
At the center of her interest is the geometry of the spaces in between - those empty spaces that arise between things and in which spatial dynamics unfold. Borges creates pictorial spaces that expand and contract, a visual continuum of tension and relaxation reminiscent of moving, breathing spatial fields. Lines, grids and structures condense into a visual rhythm that appears both structured and lively. In this current series of works, large areas of color, bold colors and subtle color gradients increasingly come to the fore. The surfaces glow, pulsate, shift in relation to each other - they create depth, but also friction, sometimes contemplative, sometimes vibrant. The color gradients create transitions between clarity and blurriness, between construction and dissolution. Borges uses color not only as a means of design, but as a carrier of movement and atmosphere, as a living element within her structural compositions. Borges stands in a multi-layered tradition of abstract art.
She was initially influenced by the Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement, which she came into contact with during her studies at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. The New York School and European artists of the 1950s and 1960s were equally influential. Like many of her generation who work with abstraction and geometry, Borges does not understand this tradition dogmatically: flatness and spatiality, illusion and construction are in constant dialog in her work. Borges draws her inspiration from seemingly random structures that she discovers in nature, in urban space or in the mass media.
Her work is diverse in terms of both content and aesthetics - it ranges from historical references and experiments in perception theory to subjective reflections. Text fragments or typographic elements can also become part of her pictures - not as readable information, but as visual impulses that create rhythmic interruptions or new associations. In "Woven Fields", Borges unfolds a visual field in which order and openness interpenetrate.
Her compositions invite contemplative observation, but at the same time demand active perception: a way of seeing that moves, that feels, that searches for meaning between lines, areas of color and empty spaces. Borges' works move beyond fixed categories - between painting and drawing, between surface and space, between construction and sensation. It is this open, breathing visual language that she has developed over almost three decades of artistic practice: a fabric of color, form and experience that is in constant motion - intense, clear, colorful.
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