Chinese Whispers is an ongoing series of paintings and part of the MACULA Collection, inspired by narrations of the fictive visual perceptions and voice recordings of FZ’s mother.
The collection reflects on the 'interpretation' and ‘translation’ of a person’s perceptions and mark a journey from sensation, to perception, to language, to interpretation, to translation, to visual representation.
The paintings are figurative/abstract representations of immaterial perceptions, filtered through FZ’s own visual aesthetics.
Half way between very tactile paintings and digital image making,
they use colors (sometimes dull, sometimes highly contrasted) which seem to be flat and artificial, almost digitally printed, when approached from afar.
Analysing the visual structure of the painting the viewer notice its tactile nature, the thick layers of the shapes meticulously painted one on top of each other using acrylic pigments.
There is a contrast and a dialogue between the 'digital' aesthetic of the painting (which has been conceived using image editing softwares) and the 'tactile' way it's paint has been laid down, and the 'human' nature of the volatile perception it takes inspiration from.
Colors overlay into fictive transparencies connecting with the very nature of these visual perceptions, described as vibrating and superimposed on normal sight.