Patricia Perez Eustaquio will be featuring a series of irregularly shapred paintings depicting imagery derived from Classical Dutch paintings for this exhibition. They were fragmented paintings, deliberately suspended in its incomplete state, like flashes of memory: fast, bright, complete in its own way and yet never quite whole. In her solo exhibition Death to the Major Viva Minor at Slab in 2008, the artist presented a series of paintings and objects that were inspired by Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. This exhibition addressed her interest in the inherent narratives and character found in materials or “materiality”, as she worked with lace, wood, leather and ceramics – craft-based materials that are associated with the decorative arts, fashioning them into stand alone objects and sculptures. 

From this point onwards, one might say that the artist had embarked on a slow leisurely journey ahead as she would unveil a small number of shaped paintings from time to time. 

-Adeline Ooi

© Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Silverlens Galleries