Work which enriches the West

This artist whose talent is well known and accepted in Europe, particularly in Paris, expresses herself through two themes: first through architecture of fabled wonder, beset with slender towers, spires and rhythmic arcs, all flaming with gold and different materials, and then through fantastic forms of the flower woman, in which are allied in complete ambiguity both the human form and the richness of the vegetable universe. One may perceive through this art a rare personality, creating a strange atmosphere born of the deepest subconscious. Here we find a spontaneous surrealism owing nothing to the traditional rites and lexicon of the surrealist school. The multiple mutations of forms and of beings are born, then flow, and then either merge again or affirm themselves in an almost biological dynamism. The meticulous execution, supple, elegant, charming at times, with tones that are ravishing and rich, release a perfume of delicately pungent eroticism, of subtle cruelty. This inspiration, physical, mental, psychic, has an alluring and troubling sorcery. It seduces us the better to overwhelm us, to plunge deep within us and to disturb us, and then it transports us into a mysterious paradise, polyvalent and multiform, into a sublimation of the thousand pulsations of the soul, of the heart and of the senses.

Oriental Artist, Juliana Seraphim retains the specific characteristics and spirituality of her origins. There we find a deep poetry in the inspiration, whether literary or plastic, of tradition. A transposition of what is real into an imaginary world of fantasy dominates artistic creation. External appearance keeps its qualities of elegance, giving pleasure to the senses and above all joy to the eye. Light and colour play a leading role as line and script weave a fabric both distributive and suggestive, while the whole work lends itself to a rich play of symbolism and adventitious signification. Behold then an achievement which reveals to us an artistic conception which is both original and a source of enrichment for the West.

Robert Vinat
Ex-President of the Association of Art Critics of France