MARTINIQUE – Aline Zalko

In December 2020, Aline Zalko accepted an invitation to lead a workshop at an art school in Fort-de-France. The artist, familiar with colored pencils, took with her only a box of watercolors, which she would never leave.

“What do we really know about Martinique when we live in France and have never taken the time to delve into its history? A few clichés, often, of rum planters, Kassav and postcards. (…) Aline Zalko’s book of drawings is not a travel diary, but the story of an experience. (…) Her paintings seem in themselves to be islands. Or drops of water that contain all the distorted reflections of reality, whose colors impregnate each other indefinitely. Magical places, the Diamant garden, Macabou, the Balata garden, Suzie’s garden, in which Aline Zalko has explored every flower and plant like so many treasures, Mount Pelée, Morne Rouge… Spaces… and nude bathers, faces, volcanoes and trees, offered to us like a secret to be contemplated through the peephole of a door.” – Claire Berest

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