Venice
After having worked for many years on the theme of the symbolic power of womanhood, FAZ has started a new phase, more ethereal and serene, on energies that surround us. She builds a protective universe that’s pregnant with peace, thus absorbing all aggressions from daily vicissitudes, and finding its source in the primary elements of Nature. She creates from sheer sensation. Her sculptures are water, matter, vegetal growth, stratified sediments, light, air, fire. She captures time, movement, the real or hidden meaning of things. Her shapes are loaded with a profound symbolic strength that pierces the essence of things, while celebrating life. In fact, bliss is her signature.
This work, sculpted in resin also evokes a sedimentary process, the slow work of time made by the tectonic plates, subduction plates. « Depth, Nietzsche said, sometimes hides on the surface ». Ages accumulating, eras piling up, unfathomed deeps of our memory, strata of reminiscences and sensations. These sculptures bring forth the cultural and natural heritage of the earth, that of humankind. The surface of these immaculate plates is stirred by the breath it senses, like water under the kiss of wind. And the matter registers the shapes of these whispers that it keeps in memory, like the most sensitive epidermis, as Paul Valery reminds us « What is most profound in a man is its skin ». In the whiteness of the material is printed the written word of the wind, traces, scars or tender marks. And Faz recalls Walt Whitman:
« Could you imagine just for a minute that all these vertical lines, curves and angles, these tiny dotted seedlings, represented the very words? Not so, the substantial words are at the bottom of the soil and of the ocean, at the bottom of the air, at the bottom of yourself. »
Isabelle de Maison Rouge Historienne de l'art, Critique d'art