Norma Bessières now focusses on the crux of her inquiry: the inanimate and the living.

How can one express the zebra as a living being while giving form to the geometric abstraction induced by its features when employing a painter’s intrinsically artificial means of depiction?

The Ruptures series encourages viewers to reconsider the relation between inanimate, symbolic objects and the pictorial concept of zebras in many unsettling compositions.