Magdalen Chua blogs about the exhibition Ingrid Calame at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh on view through October 9, 2011.

Chua writes: "Though emerging as paintings with energetic and abstract shapes, Calame's works evolve from a painstaking process that originates from the representation of cracks and stains of the physical environment… the tenor of the exhibition is upbeat, and appears to convey a sense of discovery from the act of recreation. "