flee; escape; get away; bolt; break out; liberate; set free; let go; what remains is the memory of what was and what has been.

What is the reality of the shadow? It is there and it is not there. It has no integral substance. The enigma of the shadow lies between disappearance and appearance. I capture shadows and I draw light.

Carlijn Mens studies the balance, the half-light, between good and evil, life and death, dark and light. She uses charcoal on paper, photography and video to record her observations.
In the series Preserved Places she documents from a static position the places in the countryside she wants to preserve and protect. Light and shadow are caught at high speed.
In the Flee drawings she goes a step further. She no longer appears to be standing still in the landscape, but to be running through it, to be fleeing. The images flow from memory, the shadow's mobility is imaginary.

On show works from: Preserved Places, Sweet dream, Flee-vlucht-en ren and bodyscan.

Opening: saturday 16 february 2013, 16.00
16 february - 2 march

Galerie Borzo, Keizersgracht 516, 1017 EJ Amsterdam, www.borzo.com

www.carlijnmens.nl