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In the figurative works of Gisele Sperb, the question of time is cradled by attentive observation of the speed and fluidity of the moments experienced by the contemporary subject. The artist reflected in a mirror selfie reveals herself and ourselves.  
In the installation in which a cell phone is inside an ice cube, Self-Portrait - 2016, we are faced with anguish and discomfort when seeing such a “necessary” and “essential” object trapped, chained by time, time that slowly melts , time that we don't have nowadays. 
In the photo series Experience – 2017, fragmentation causes strangeness, perhaps it wants the viewer to dedicate a little more time to fruition by not making the photographed object obvious.
The artist takes back time. His energetic brushstrokes full of expressions accumulate and merge, reaching abstraction. And, it is in this continuous process that I observe the fog that hovers in Gisele Sperb's painting, Untitled -2017, a fog that overflows beyond the four vertices. That same frightening and enigmatic shadow(?) that I see in Washington Irving's Legend of the Headless Horseman. Lost in the forest, on the battlefield of Louchbuie, the Knight lives between the past and the present that merge in the suspension of time. 
In the 2018 paintings, the artist assumes her expressive brushstrokes superimposed on traces of figures and spaces that blended into abstraction. 
Gisele's works make us reflect on how we experience our daily lives, how we get lost in our own time, in this locomotive that drags us on until the next day.  

 
Luana Bandeira 
Bachelor of Visual Arts

Arts Center, Federal University of Pelotas, 2019.