Hayal Pozanti

 
Evoking the idioms of painting, Pozanti eschews its formal constraints and presents visual ciphers that foreground the possibilities of imaginative space. Her abstract fields are derived from an intensive process of meticulous brushwork that attempts to arrive at what the artist describes as “shapes that have not existed before.” In this, Pozanti mines the legacy of American artist and theorist, Frederick Kiesler, who argued that geometric forms are “the trading posts of visible and invisible forces.” Perceived reality is defined by this continual interaction and he termed the exchange “co-reality.” Referencing the interface of the body and technology, her process intercedes as a means of slowing down, creating spaces apart from the flux of information. Underscoring the physicality of the medium, optical abstraction invariably yields to haptic perception, inviting moments of contemplation and reflective silence.

I am interested in the shapes and forms that are represented, through layers of colour and how they become intertwined with each other, resulting in forms that jut out and don't seem to want to connect with others. The colour pallet is very opaque, matt resulting in a depth and space between bright and dark colours, which how I consider my works to act with this medium too.