Christina Kimeze: Long loops
For her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, British artist Christina Kimeze will present new paintings that explore the complexity of interior spaces, both domestic and psychological. Vibrant and uniquely textured, her canvases depict ethereal interiors, landscapes and figures鈥攅ither solitary or intimately connected鈥攚ith an air of mystery and mutability. Tactility is an essential element of these works.
On a foundation of suede matboard, Kimeze combines dry chalk, oil pastel and wet paints, crushing and merging her mediums into the fabric ground. The technique gives Kimeze鈥檚 paintings an atmosphere of indeterminacy that underscores her subject matter: the shifting, transient nature of memory and shared experience.
Recurring motifs, such as abstracted foliage and architectural arches, create delineation within the paintings and are Kimeze鈥檚 tools for blurring the lines that exist between the personal and public. In some of her more recent works, Kimeze draws inspiration from the resurgence of roller skating in Black communities in the UK, seeing it as a metaphor for flight and freedom. Through her paintings, she captures the sensation of gliding through space while also reflecting on the tension of existing between two states鈥攂oth grounded and soaring.
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For her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, British artist Christina Kimeze will present new paintings that explore the complexity of interior spaces, both domestic and psychological. Vibrant and uniquely textured, her canvases depict ethereal interiors, landscapes and figures鈥攅ither solitary or intimately connected鈥攚ith an air of mystery and mutability. Tactility is an essential element of these works.
On a foundation of suede matboard, Kimeze combines dry chalk, oil pastel and wet paints, crushing and merging her mediums into the fabric ground. The technique gives Kimeze鈥檚 paintings an atmosphere of indeterminacy that underscores her subject matter: the shifting, transient nature of memory and shared experience.
Recurring motifs, such as abstracted foliage and architectural arches, create delineation within the paintings and are Kimeze鈥檚 tools for blurring the lines that exist between the personal and public. In some of her more recent works, Kimeze draws inspiration from the resurgence of roller skating in Black communities in the UK, seeing it as a metaphor for flight and freedom. Through her paintings, she captures the sensation of gliding through space while also reflecting on the tension of existing between two states鈥攂oth grounded and soaring.
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