PLANT BODY     30.10.–22.11.2020

Flesh of a plant, bones of the sea, foreign and organic bodies. Spiraling petal, bivalves, rock coral, strange creature in the depths. Our bodies are interconnected. Veins of a leaf spread out, a heart of a fly pumps fluid into a pair of insect wings, a nervous system branches into hyphae and a river into small streams, hot magma bursts into droplets. Falling and flowing, surfaces are undulating and vibrating. The plant body rises from the water.

Flowering and decay follow each other in continuous but changing cycles. In- and outside of our bodies, entities are born and age, formations evolve, attach to one another, split and reorganize. In my painting I use these reactions, which also occur when different painting substances meet on the canvas.

The exhibition features oil paintings on canvas and on round boards as well as ink paintings on paper. The paintings combine small- and large-scale events, bodily plants, aquatic organisms, and strangely familiar anatomy. They speculate on possible worlds and open up views from inside a drop of water, down to the deep seabed and up into the atmosphere.