"“They seemed to hold a power in their sadness, but also great beauty and remembrance as they stood guard over many of the tombs,” the artist says."
"“Grief is a somber subject and multi-layered; it feels fitting for the time we're living in, but I also saw hope and life bursting through,” she says. Few instances highlight the duality of life and death so well as the context of a cemetery, and that's where the artist honed in on her interest in relationships between presence and absence, the terrestrial and the spiritual, and impermanence and decay."
"“These paintings depict that threshold,” Kappos says, “moving from one realm to another.” Hazy landscapes unfold in the distance of some works, and keyhole shapes emerge almost Magic Eye-like in the center of several others. These focal portals unlock something, the artist says, “perhaps our own beliefs and the haze of the unknown, or they can act"
Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is a famous burial ground with notable figures and iconic family tombs and sculptural headstones. While wandering there, Marina Kappos was drawn to sculptures of grieving women that conveyed sadness, beauty, and remembrance. Her solo exhibition, Piercing the Veil, centers on loss and memory, focusing on relationships between presence and absence, the terrestrial and the spiritual, and impermanence and decay. The works use aura-like acrylic paintings on wood panels with thin pigment layers that create gauzily psychedelic, prismatic effects. The show’s title references awakening and enhanced perception, depicting a threshold moving from one realm to another. Some paintings include hazy landscapes and keyhole-like portals that suggest beliefs, the unknown, and what lies beyond.
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