Rainbow Skin
Current Work
Rainbow Skin is an installation composed of a series of 111 clay balls of various sizes and colors and a series of pictorial artworks in acrylic and watercolor, realized on canvas, on frame and on paper.
As for the balls ( made by a Rwandan cooperative named “Coopérative Moderne de Poteries”), they are arranged in a scenography that places them at equal distance from each other and the whole artwork comes to life through the interaction with the viewer, as it is perceived differently depending on the point of view that one adopts.
Observed from an angle, one perceives horizontal and vertical lines, geometric forms that offer the vision of a structured and ordered world.
On the other hand, if the work is perceived in a frontal way, we lose any notion of coherence and we are confronted with a more chaotic vision.
But beyond this conception of order and disorder, Rainbow Skin plunges the viewer into a multidimensional sensory exploration.
First of all, we perceive the physicality of these balls. Their form and their matter transport us in a physical world, a tangible world.
But when we linger on the prism of light that reflects on them, they offer us a range of colors, which will provide different emotions to each viewer.
Each ball is an artwork in itself, but it is also a part of a larger entity. And the interaction between the 111 balls causes a tremendous energy that is transferred to the viewer.
With this installation, Gilles DUSABE invites us to live an experience of exploration which is physical and emotional, but more especially energetic.
As for the different paintings, composed of multicolored dots, dense on some works and scattered on others, they amplify the movement of this multidimensional journey.
Rainbow Skin is also a continuation of "Blackness and Blackless", a series of photographs dedicated to brown skins and the question of racial segregation.
Through this rainbow artwork, Gilles DUSABE questions what brings us together despite our diversity and denounces the absurdity of discrimination and stereotypes related to skin color.
