BFAP Magazine 2023 - Flipbook - Page 32
Saul Baraitser
Saul Baraitser situates themselves as a
textile artist, working currently on handmade curtains with oil pastels and stitching.
They open textiles up to an exploration in a
‘painterly’ fashion, using classical drawing
techniques. Yet unlike canvas, curtains are free
hanging, and the surface is soft and crenulated,
compared to masculine stretched canvas.
Baraitser draws with oil pastels, a technique
that is quick and simple, but a material with a
sense of richness and vividness that allows for
both gestural and contained marks. Baraitser
finds it is important to have a relatively quick
input from idea to image. Stitch is entirely
the opposite, a time-consuming practice that
they use to create both their backgrounds,
language, and patterns for the work.
Baraitser’s current works are an exploration of
figuration. Being concerned with the idea of the
figure, and what figures do to one another. They
are interested in elements of the unknown and
moments of uncertainty and tension, is it a kind
gesture or a hateful one? These relationships
are at the centre of Baraitser’s work and of
their own interests, and their source are often
taken from dreams and daydreams, as dream
thoughts are both known and unknown,
and ultimately reveal something ‘honest’
about a lived experience and relationality.
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