Through her art, Jacqueline H-Botquelen acts as an archaeologist of the human psyche, her creations seem to have been unearthed or recovered from some distant place in the artist's unconscious.
It's as if each work of art has had a life of its own, transcended by the artist's research into the mediums used. Jacqueline H-Botquelen achieves a suspended time in reference to our memories.
“Like the French philosopher and art critic, Louis Marin proposed in 1989, the storia occurs in modern representation, from the articulation between reflexive opacity and transitive transparency. JHB oscillates effortlessly between them with graceful proficiency. In a pilgrimage through the opacity of memory, these mysterious fragments of consciousness become metaphors of the path Botquelen follows; it is a search for the ultimate essence of her art, materialized in the sophisticated manipulation of millenarian materials in an attempt to resist fading into oblivion.” Veronica Cuomo, Curator (Art-Essay on Jacqueline H-Botquelen’s artwork).
The central theme of Jacqueline H-Botquelen's artistic research is Permanence and Fragility. In her artistic series, she creates a recurring dialogue between figurative and abstract in her paintings, collages and sculptures.
