Description
A painting by Alexandra Pozzo di Borgo, Poissonnier II dates from 2010 and is made in ink and acrylic on paper mounted on canvas.
In Alexandra Pozzo di Borgo’s work, the everyday spectacle of the fish market becomes a study of movement, material, and perception. Fish, figures, counters, and surrounding space merge through fluid brushwork, hovering between figuration and abstraction. Rather than describing the scene precisely, Pozzo di Borgo allows forms to appear, dissolve, and re-emerge through layers of color and gesture.
The fish themselves become almost abstract forms—silvery bodies, flashes of blue, pink, white, and ochre moving across darker grounds. In the paintings of fishmongers, the human figure is similarly absorbed into the environment: bodies, tables, produce, and shadows seem constructed from the same restless painterly matter.
There is something particularly effective about this subject for her practice. The liquidity of the paint echoes the world she depicts—water, wet surfaces, reflective fish, movement, and the fleeting activity of the market. What initially appears loose or chaotic gradually resolves into recognizable forms, capturing the tension between abstraction and observation that defines her work.
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