Amelie Ducommun, SWM 128, oil on canvas, 59" x 59", 2017
Amelie Amelie Ducommun, SWM 128, oil on canvas, 59" x 59", 2017
Amelie Ducommun, SWM 128, oil on canvas, 59" x 59", 2017
Amelie Ducommun, SWM 128, oil on canvas, 59" x 59", 2017
Amelie Amelie Ducommun, SWM 128, oil on canvas, 59" x 59", 2017
Amelie Ducommun, SWM 128, oil on canvas, 59" x 59", 2017

Amelie Ducommun, Sensitive Water Mapping 128, oil on canvas, 59" x 59", 2017

$9,500.00

Amélie Ducommun is a French-Swiss artist living and painting in Barcelona, Spain. The Water Mapping series are inspired by nature, specifically by the power of water. She is particularly masterful at using her method and medium to create imagery that both refers to the way the natural world looks and also captures ephemeral memories and transcendent emotions that nature inspires. Like memories, her imagery is layered, and flickers in and out of our field of vision, with forms disappearing as soon as we realize they are present in the painting.  

Amélie Ducommun is a French-Swiss artist living and painting in Barcelona, Spain. The Water Mapping series are inspired by nature, specifically by the power of water. She is particularly masterful at using her method and medium to create imagery that both refers to the way the natural world looks and also captures ephemeral memories and transcendent emotions that nature inspires. Like memories, her imagery is layered, and flickers in and out of our field of vision, with forms disappearing as soon as we realize they are present in the painting.  

With this series, Ducommun is also playing with an ambiguity between “micro and macro,” creating immersive scenes that make the viewer feel like they are underwater, with sea life surrounding them. But a simple shift in perspective also allows one to also read the images as a beach, with seaweed, stones, and water washing back and forth over the surface. Yet another shift in perspective has the viewer reading the work as a landscape seen from above, as a map of geographical and geological features that record the passage of time and the power of natural forces like water to sculpt the earth’s whole surface. Here, time and memory play out on a grand scale, with the footprint of the water and the story of the earth’s evolution being so much longer than human history.