Zoé Aczél

In my practice, I use feelings of liminality to create, and in doing so I discover…

Trusting my intuition, my process starts off automatic by focusing on parts of a song that elicit a visceral response in me. Having Synaesthesia, I see sounds and emotions in the form of shapes and colours. This allows me to easily step into other realms, through depicting the emotions and rhythm of sound that flows through me as I paint. It is a form of introspection, dealing with repressed memories, feelings of hope, longing and guilt.  Reflecting on the inner turmoil attached to specific moments in my life, each piece is an extension of myself, as I tell a story of my past in the present. These emotions result in biomorphic surreal landscapes that open up ways for me to heal, by depicting the presence and absence of those lost in these inner realms.

Transformation and transaction are key elements of participating in magic. For me, painting is where I let different dimensions collide. It becomes a sacred, almost magical encounter. I become vulnerable by welcoming an image from within, making my inner landscape visible to both me and the viewer. I am inspired by artists such as, Hilma af Klint, Erna Rosenstein, Agnes Pelton who showed us a world, otherwise invisible.

Through lamenting the realities of my existence into physical form, I am searching for a sense of peace, by creating these in-between places, where frictions of the body and mind, the dead and the living, our own wisdom and that ancestor, work in symbiotic ways. Creating unrecognizable realities forces me to be reminded of the interconnectivity in all that is one in nature and in spirit, resulting in biomimetic structures, signalling an unknown but familiar force which we are all part of.