Please note... Isabelle Borges's paintings are many layered... therefore lighting plays an important role in viewing her work, which changes during the day at every moment. Just to say that an image on your screen does not give you the full story... her work invites you to an ongoing experience...
Isabelle Borges, born in 1966 in Salvador de Bahia, is a Brazilian artist who currently resides and works in Berlin. Her works are heavily influenced by Brazilian modern architecture and the Bauhaus movement. Borges creates large-scale drawings that feature colorful lines, producing geometric pictorial spaces. She studied sociology in Brasilia and fine arts in Rio de Janeiro before moving to Germany in 1993. In Cologne, she worked as an assistant to several artists, including Sigmar Polke. She continued her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Borges has lived and worked in Berlin for over 20 years and is represented by galleries in Europe and Brazil.
Borges is known for her site-specific wall installations that are created in conversation with the architectural space. Her paintings, collages, and boxes are also a part of her repertoire. The two-dimensionality of the wall composition and the objects on the wall create an interplay of line and surface. Borges uses geometry to explore patterns between given structures of nature and their spatial dynamics. Her works aim to balance the total space of art, where the drawings extrapolate the edges, invading the walls through luminous poetry of colors that pop up behind the objects, contrasting with the dark lines and in the empty white space.
The lines on the wall seem to open up an unseen space, expanding the perceived room. The pictorial space seems to be in a continuous movement, and the lines on the wall, the objects, and the paintings seem to be connected in some way. Borges has recently presented a new series of paintings that explore the relations between shapes, lines, and colors.
Isabelle Borges is being represented by several galleries in Germany, in Brazil and in The Netherlands at Frank Taal.