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The exceptional nature of Jacqueline Domin's art is based on two fundamental characteristics: the first focuses on colours used with passionate skill in full respect of light’s colours, the second on the development of a naturalistic landscape, a foundation of art visually noted as an expressive ... Read more

The exceptional nature of Jacqueline Domin's art is based on two fundamental characteristics: the first focuses on colours used with passionate skill in full respect of light’s colours, the second on the development of a naturalistic landscape, a foundation of art visually noted as an expressive symbol of a wide and dilated context.

Each composition of Jacqueline Domaine starts from an inner elaboration, which is the aesthetic core of the work. The main topics are both an extreme attention to light and an accurate analysis of nature in its continuous mutability.
The tones of her photographic compositions are simply unmistakable; here you can see different details discovered in the most hidden recesses of her landscapes and several perspectives alternated in her naturalistic scenarios.
Places’ memory is for Domin the most congenial material for a full expression of the creative excursus, in which to find the primary elements for her passionate expressive research.

In a game of perspectives and wise tricks, the artist creates a dosage of light able to live in compositional reliefs, experienced in the intensity of emotions and in the suggestion of impressions. Jacqueline Domin remains the foundation of her creative intention, determined by colours’ intensity and qualified by the intellectual context of her research, which totally penetrates the observer in his visual persuasion.
Photographic art works represents not only material reality (naturalistic landscape, memory, space and time), but are an attempt to shape all people’s hidden forces, energies and resources that represent the link with the most unconscious and primordial part of existence.

Sometimes art is science’s repudiation. What reason cannot demonstrate (the presumed memory of water) is for Jacqueline Domin the hypothesis of a theorem demonstrated with convincing evidence, relying on feeling and inviting meditation. As a photographer linked to the tradition of film cameras, ... Read more

Sometimes art is science’s repudiation. What reason cannot demonstrate (the presumed memory of water) is for Jacqueline Domin the hypothesis of a theorem demonstrated with convincing evidence, relying on feeling and inviting meditation. As a photographer linked to the tradition of film cameras, Jacqueline Domin has a non-maniacal relationship with technique, in order to not imitate the emotional experience that she establishes with the subject of nature: it is the right antidote to the banality of selfie’s era.

Vittorio Sgarbi

Sgarbi's words reveal a sincere eulogy of appreciation for her when she states that "Domin practices photography as a deepening of knowledge, since her goal is to capture an essence, an idea of pure light".

Reflections emerge from light, which is the main topic of the artist’s photographs. The reflection on a metaphorical level can lead us to connect it to the "mirror of self", to the awareness of what our figure refers to the environment in terms of light, energy aura, perceptual and emotional ... Read more

Reflections emerge from light, which is the main topic of the artist’s photographs. The reflection on a metaphorical level can lead us to connect it to the "mirror of self", to the awareness of what our figure refers to the environment in terms of light, energy aura, perceptual and emotional sensations that are all projected in the interactive field. We are often unaware of this, but what surrounds us is strongly influenced by our work as human beings. Instead, we are more accustomed, as a legacy of cultural tradition, to thinking in the opposite direction, so, it is our environment that influences us.
On this imprint of thought, in the eighties, photography completed its process of interaction in avant-garde art, which began in the sixties and continued with great determination in the following decade. The applications have been innumerable and multiform. In the wake of this orientation, which has led art to a progressive, continuous and growing openness towards photography, the artist moves with expert skill and stands out for the consolidated mastery acquired in the modern contemporary experimentation of art photography.

The elements, objects and subjects she captured and immortalised through the lens are part of a panorama of images of surprising and choreographic perspective and spectacular visions belonging to real or fantastic landscapes of "imaginative-mental" matrix that generate intriguing and evocative games of dynamic spatiality. At the same time, the photographs highlight the contribution made by the evanescent and reflective effects of light and the light range of the shades and chiaroscuro declinations. The works evoke reflections produced by nature, water, images refracting from the lens and reworked with absolute originality. They are representations that, through the play and the combinations of brilliant and glittering luminescent effects, offer the viewer different interpretative opportunities, points of view and ways of perceiving the context evoked, united in a deep fusion of synergistic bond by a single fundamental instrument of dialogue: photography and its free creative interpretation.

Ancient visionary dimensions, , imaginative and dreamlike worlds, alternative dimensions populated by landscapes and surreal atmospheres emerge, all wrapped in a magical dimension that, through a harmonious compositional cadence, allows the eye of the observer to approach an innovative and engaging way of perceiving the "reflexus" through the powerful and vibrant dynamism of the "reflection", an effective expressive tool that Jacqueline Domin manages to combine perfectly with acute originality and innate artistic sensitivity. For her there is not a single and unique way to delineate the surrounding world, because she observes and scrutinizes the environment with a strongly introspective attitude, but at the same time witty and disenchanted, impressing intense subliminal metaphors within her "special worlds" captured by the lens. She expresses her own emotional sensations, translated by photography and enriching them with important meanings and underlying messages of great topicality and modernity of thought, to trigger a stimulating, varied and heterogeneous communication.
Elena Gollini