ArtLab introduced the recent graduate Brigitte Williams at the Art London Fair. Her seminal works, White Sun and Black Sun (pictured), attracted enormous interest resulting in a clutch of sales to American and British collectors.

As in all her other pieces to date, White Sun is about her preoccupation with language and its relationships with visual stimuli. She focuses on the similarities that exist between the structures that form language and visual art. Her work highlights the fact that our ability to predict and form expectations relies on our ability to recognize patterns in the world around us; it is these patterns that are the most obvious visual feature of her work.

At another level, Williams is making a contribution to the development of conceptual art. She attempts to analyse the very concept of representation and the boundary that lies between picture and written text. In order to depict subjective ideas (such as colour, emotions, art, perception), she sources descriptive vocabulary from the dictionary (in order to remove her own subjectivity) and makes something that hovers between ‘language’ and ‘visual art.’