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The link between these two pictorial practices is not obvious at first sight. However, after a second look, the unrealistic curves of Carlotta Bailly-Borg’s bodies do intuitively answer the audacious cuts of Luca Rossi Dossi’s frames. Both sketch cringing strategies of seduction in which charm is wrapped in resistance: seduction thus requires an involvement, a commitment from both parts. The two respective practices attest to a great pictorial sense, as well as a pleasure to paint and to question the margins of the history of painting, with a politeness that borders on impertinence, and where irreverence is a form of critical allegiance.
Born in 1984, Carlotta Bailly-Borg is a French artist based in Brussels. After graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy, she became a resident at the Pavillon du Palais de Tokyo. Her work has been exhibited at the Fondation Ricard in Paris, Karma International in Los Angeles, the South London Gallery and the Palais de Tokyo.
Luca Rossi Dossi was born in 1988 in Lugano and currently works in Geneva where he is completing a master’s degree in visual arts at the HEAD-Geneva. His paintings have been shown at HIT and LIYH in Geneva, at the Centre d’art contemporain de Lacoux, at Kunsthernes Has in Oslo. He is the 2018 winner of the Jungkunst prize in Winterthur.
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