Nine steps for Personal Development # 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508818533)

Giuliana Jaccom (°1976, Montréal, Canada) creates mixed media artworks, photos, drawings and conceptual artworks. By applying abstraction, Jaccom plays with the idea of the mortality of an artwork confronted with the power of a transitory appearance, which is, by being restricted in time, much more intense. Romantic values such as 'inspiration', 'genius' and 'authenticity' are thereby neutralized and put into perspective. By investigating language on a meta-level, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles. Her works are presented with the aim not to provide an idealistic view but to identify where light and the environment are important. The energy of a place and its emotional and spiritual vibrations are always important. By applying a wide variety of contemporary strategies, she tries to focus on the activity of presenting. The character, shape or content of the presented artwork is secondary. The essential things are the momentary and the intention of presenting. Her works focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualize reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references is a key element in the work.