"Failures": a harsh word to describe what we fail to achieve, what our society finds so difficult to bear.
Where we should succeed, persevere, and show no sign of it,
Christine Barone chooses instead to expose the flaw.
Her failures become tangible, present, a turning point.
Enveloped in blue, sometimes patinated with gold, they are no longer concealed:
they are revealed, embraced, sublimated.

To give this series its full symbolic weight, the artist composes using old, abandoned canvases, discarded fragments, even incorporating her own hair as an intimate signature.
For our failures may not be ends, but rather the starting points for new advances.