Marina Rheingantz: Míope

Eluding any stable identification of time or place, the landscape paintings of Marina Rheingantz issue from the artist’s evolving archive of photographs, painterly and textile references and memories of rural Brazil, folding what has been seen, sensed and remembered into unmoored, mutable vistas. Formed through successive applications and removals of paint, their surfaces take on a topographical disposition of their own: paint gathers, thins, stains and recedes, forms emerge and become obscured again. Rather than describing landscape as a fixed condition, Rheingantz attends to its continual remaking, echoing processes of growth, depletion, erosion and sedimentation through a handling of material that leaves her forms provisional and vulnerable to alteration.