Spirals in the hands
Sherley Freudenreich shows us a world full of vital expressions. In her illustrations, life manifests itself brimming with forms and colors. The stones can be turned into airplanes flying to other logics, much more real than those imposed on us, and from there any heaven seems to be small, humble, full of questions and interchangeable and always changing answers. Her clouds are open wide and the rain is one more reason to mourn laughing. In her art there is always a sky waiting for a dream.
Sherley began to show her art in various cities of Belgium as projected videos shown during dance shows. Later, she moved to Barcelona where her paintings were exhibited in various art galleries and many of her illustrations were published in the press. Finally, she returned to her natal Strasbourg where she shares the studio Bastion 14 with other artists investigating for an art work that she already exhibit in many countries. Sherley also brings her imagination to children and young people to make them discover the illustration and the video as an expression way while she’s presenting since 12th July her works in a collective exhibition called Ritual at the Causey Contemporary Gallery in New York.
L'échappée belle is the generic title that presents a sample of her series Cafe Zinc Area, Love, Novo and also L'échappée belle itself. The variety of her work spans collages, photographs and videos. Works like the animation À la recherche d’une idée show clearly her minimalist and open to discovery spirit. Ravens on huge cathedrals, spirals in her hands, colored balls falling down on eternal cities, books that overwhelm its readers, her art is a true Neige en fête to be left by its bath on a winter night while conventions are sleeping. The music hovers in our mouths, large and hungry of creativity, in acrylic paints on white canvas, eyes will look extensively and our ears will live listening to every whisper as if it were a new color. To imagine with Sherley is the best way to be alive.
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Art piece by Sherley Freudenreich