Composition 71
FENEHARI Sarah
2024
Height: 40cm – Width: 40cm
Acrylic on canvas

ARTISTIC APPROACH:                                    

    “Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a nude woman or any anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.”                                                        

                                                                         Maurice Denis, Art et Critique, article, 1890.

FENEHARI Sarah's work focuses on creating immersive sensory experiences between the viewer and the chromatic universe she deploys through her works. Her compositions aim to free color from all figurative representation, allowing for direct and pure interaction. In this dialogue, color becomes a living material, an echo of nature in its most essential dimension: the vibration of light on water, the transparency of foliage traversed by the sun, the density of a heavy sky... Her works do not seek to reproduce nature, but to reveal its sensitive energy, its invisible force.

FENEHARI Sarah is interested in how spectators' imaginations manifest themselves in the face of these color fields. Some project forms onto them, as an attempt at anchoring or understanding, while others surrender to the experience, accepting color as one accepts the presence of a landscape: an immersion that is more felt than described. It is in this apparent simplicity that the greatest complexity lies. Naming her works "COMPOSITION" suggests both an inner construction and an openness: a space for interpretation where the viewer regains the freedom to perceive color as a natural element, a raw material that connects them to their own imagination, but also to the environment around them.

The techniques used by the artist aim to minimize any visible trace of her intervention. Her creative process deliberately fades away, making it almost impossible to guess the origin, stages, or tools used for the creation. This absence of a technical signature acts as an analogy with nature itself: everything seems to "go without saying," without always revealing the forces at play.

Thus, the work exists by itself, as an autonomous presence, between the silence of materials and the attention of the viewer. It lies at the border between art and nature, not in reproduction, but in the experience of a chromatic vitality that breathes and evolves in the gaze of the beholder.