Book of hours Is the name of missals — illustrated books with origins in the Middle Ages — with the calendar of feasts and saints, the Hours of the Virgin of the Cross, the Holy Spirit and the dead, prayers and penitential psalms. Book of Hours is also the name of a book of poems by Rilke that, according to Ana Frois ([suas]), had the purpose of «finding images for [his] inner transformations». In this selection of 6 notebooks from a longer series, the artist opens a window on «a record of the passing of hours and days in these last months». The evocation of the events of her own secular and private calendar.
«The drawings do not represent the reality around me, nor do they fix events. They are fast and abstract drawings that reveal what visually interests me at a given time, or themes that come back and repeat. These drawings are also not intended to organize a narrative. They simply record the passage of time. As I go through the notebooks, I see one day after another, like a ‘fugue’. I like the briefness, the repetition and the format, small and portable like a book.»
The quasi-diaristic process of this work manifests an ecstatic curiosity and the very gesture of devoting oneself to the singularity of one’s own astonishment. Imagination performs this look at the world: trace, color, texture or shape are its tools. The result is a multiplicity of visual compositions, more formal or more visceral, more contained or more convulsive; always from a drawing, a collage or a sentence. And that are part of a wider project:time is the tiger.
