The ‘Relentless Hope’ series consists of mixed media works on Aluminium created using physi-digital processes ranging from painting to photography, digital manipulation to collage and printmaking. The pieces explore the contradictory forces that make up so much of our embodied human experience; the liminal spaces between the external and the internal, the physical and psychological, and the ongoing struggle between the mortal body and the possibility of an eternal spirit.

Fontaine-Wolf integrates self-portraiture to explore her own experience of the human condition, bringing a quality of intimacy to the pieces. The nature of the images created however - faceless, distorted and almost otherworldly - allows for these images to extend outwards from the purely personal into the realm of the archetypal.

The use of mirrors in composing the images draws on Fontaine-Wolf’s ongoing interest in Vanitas symbolism and Lacanian mirror theory, whilst also referencing her interest in mysticism and the occult. The reflections of the segmented body explore contemporary concerns with self-image and digital representation, which can lead us to feel a deep sense of fragmentation in much the same way as mirror-gazing can have a dissociative effect on our sense of identity.

The presence of hands in this series of works act as gestures towards dissolution - multiplied and disembodied. Grasping in the dark without eyes to guide them, they continue on impelled by a sense of relentless hope.