Djina Chemtov is a guide to the invisible. Her paintings suggest a passageway whose entrance must be found to enter the other side of the mirror, like Alice. Her work consistently expresses an underlying mystery, no matter the subject.
Gazing at her paintings, we embark on a journey to an elsewhere, a hidden side of ourselves, as if lead by an Ariadne's thread.

Questions raised in our quest are met by a few clues surreptitiously distilled by Djina: a solid, immanent structure, an expression of the love of nature in her work, an intimacy she recreates in us, recalling the times of her encounter with art through the material of the fabric and the weft, reminiscent of an embodied, tangible carnal aspect ever-present in her paintings.
Our eyes are equally captivated by the interplay of transparency and overlay of colors in which each of them hides, is modelled or revealed in clear and incandescent skies; the bodies, translucent faces and blazing landscapes are sublimated by a warm and friendly atmosphere, the result of a complete harmony between matter and color.

Has Djina Chemtov -like the fairy Viviane, drawn an invisible magic circle with her brushes of light around the spectator contemplating her paintings? Despite the few clues gleaned from her work, I have not been able to solve the deep mystery that permeates her paintings and gives them an impressive strength and freedom. Finally, riveted to the heart of her paintings, slowly emerges an expectation and the promise of an afterlife, like an echo of our inner life and dreams seeking to come true...

Laure Dellu