Celia Lees: Love Language
Sugarlift is pleased to present Celia Lees: LOVE LANGUAGE, on view at the High Line Nine: 507 West 27th Street, New York, NY, from February 28 - March 27, 2024.
How we each express love to one another is at the center of Lees鈥� latest collection. LOVE LANGUAGE is Lees鈥� investigation of her own. In contemporary dating practices, how we love has evolved into a referenceable taxonomy. Couples slot themselves into labels that best fit their love language. Some prefer 鈥渁cts of service鈥� while others yearn for 鈥渨ords of affirmation.鈥�
In LOVE LANGUAGE, Lees breaks down hers at a molecular level. Some works explore a single, seemingly innocuous phrase exchanged between her and a lover. In other works, she grieves the failures and darker undercurrents of relationships past. Throughout the collection, she depicts a relationship stage, a word, or a feeling of love. Lees makes clear to us that her love language is transient and does not fit within any system. In some pieces, her love language is confident, assertive and expressive鈥揵rush strokes are intense and gestural, combined with highly energetic marks. In other pieces, her love language is melancholic and yearning鈥攊ntense palettes with diluted inks, allowing gravity to dictate the composition.
Sugarlift is pleased to present Celia Lees: LOVE LANGUAGE, on view at the High Line Nine: 507 West 27th Street, New York, NY, from February 28 - March 27, 2024.
How we each express love to one another is at the center of Lees鈥� latest collection. LOVE LANGUAGE is Lees鈥� investigation of her own. In contemporary dating practices, how we love has evolved into a referenceable taxonomy. Couples slot themselves into labels that best fit their love language. Some prefer 鈥渁cts of service鈥� while others yearn for 鈥渨ords of affirmation.鈥�
In LOVE LANGUAGE, Lees breaks down hers at a molecular level. Some works explore a single, seemingly innocuous phrase exchanged between her and a lover. In other works, she grieves the failures and darker undercurrents of relationships past. Throughout the collection, she depicts a relationship stage, a word, or a feeling of love. Lees makes clear to us that her love language is transient and does not fit within any system. In some pieces, her love language is confident, assertive and expressive鈥揵rush strokes are intense and gestural, combined with highly energetic marks. In other pieces, her love language is melancholic and yearning鈥攊ntense palettes with diluted inks, allowing gravity to dictate the composition.
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