Visions of Leilani
Series of 13 collages
poster paint and collages 2015-2016
In this serie of collages, Adeline Parrot combines a variety of distorted Tiki references with the vastness of empty architectural landscapes. The pattern repeats and the colour dazzles us, tending toward fluorescent and hallucination.
The artist gives us a lot to see, yet nothing is easy to discern, encouraging an uneasy hesitation between enjoyment and uncertainty. Behind the overdose of pigments hides a certain strangeness that leads us to yet unexplored and troubling territories.
These new worlds she opens are timeless and locationless. They are lost in some kind of infinity, into which visitors are invited to project themselves. Bodies and minds are set free, once more. The artist rewrites the faith of Tiki’s lost spirituality absorbed by pop society and proposes us an ultra-contemporary vision of it.
End of the 50’s, the GI are back from the Pacific. Hawaii is now part of the USA, and American society is thirsty for fun and exotism to heal it wounds. Totally ignoring the original spiritual roots of Tiki, America allows itself to re-create the original spiritual roots of Tiki, America allows itself to re-create its own Pacific dream of primitivism, made of plastic, alcohol and fake legends. Tiki is now everywhere: architecture, Hollywood, fashion…