V’ S Room

Jessica Brox

Here is a series of revolving scenes: glimpses of emotional microcosms, evocative of fin de siècle femininity. Jessica Brox amplifies the tactile effect of pastel and charcoal in a way perfectly suited to these images’ interiority. It’s interesting how she uses the textures of the materials to give an eroded effect. In their anatomic acuity and aqueous emotional environment they recall the vivid insight of Egon Schiele. In ‘Form’ we get that spliced dual experience of looking at a body and feeling to be one, experiences which tend to merge with as well as to contrast each other. The figure in this work is suggestive of a silhouette, a marionette… In ‘Veiled’, is it a head of hair that trails across the surface of the work, or is it an atmosphere? The black locks expand into the pure materiality of charcoal. The small scale of these works contribute to their enclosed visuals: the women unravel in solitude’s universe. They are unclothed, and one returns to the hair as adornment and identity, the elucidating focal point of the images.