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Noemi Weber

Info: Noemi Weber is a painter. She paints her unprimed canvases on the ground, sometimes stacking them, so that the paint seeps through from the back of one canvas and imprints itself on the cloth below. Layer after layer, she first stains then paints with nail or body brushes, sponges, and her own extremities, leaving sweeping, sometimes breathy, marks that eventually become a relief. Weber chooses acrylic paint, which she often mixes with additives classically meant for priming, like cellulose and marble dust, to prolong wetness and produce surfaces that seem more succulent or rugged. The canvases writhe during their creation as the materials blend or shrink, their transformations revealed only later by the raw edges of unpainted fabric and an occasional imprint of the underlying frame. Weber speaks of her canvases as morphing topographies, refusing the empty white surface classically prepared for projection. This irreverence is not merely transgressive—Weber’s deep knowledge of European painting becomes the ground from which she builds a visual world entirely her own. (…)