Tufa

In “Tufa”, the name for oddly shaped chalk rock formations, Michèle Matyn enlarges one of her memories from a visit to France and frames it. By this framing she presents her work outdoors in the exact same manner as in between walls. As part of the expo ’11 artists against the wall’ Michèle Matyn is the only one using photography, interestingly placing this photograph on a rather high-up location where you would normally encounter a painting. While the white edges tell us the original photograph was a polaroid, she lets our imagination do the trick. In the depicted rocks two black forms can be seen as eyes (looking out over the city?). With the two black eyes present, the structure of the rocks resembles a distorted face, overall this is perceived as a ‘skull’. The subtle personification of nature isn’t strange to her an contributes to the mystical atmosphere presented here.