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In her third exhibition at Deborah Schamoni, Aileen Murphy presents a series of five large-scale oil paintings. Departing from the motif of the table, the paintings unfold architecturally inflected structures that divide the pictorial space into an above and a below. What is decisive here is the performative engagement with the table as an everyday object that becomes a stage, opening up new spatial, bodily, and painterly possibilities. These tables are not sites of domestic, office, or productive labour. They are sites of play – variable systems of order that enable retreat and transition – within which animals repeatedly appear.
These animals shape the psychological temperature of the paintings. They inhabit the tables, which offer them support and a protective space. The animals may be read as stand-ins for humans whose existence is not fixed but conceived as fluid. At times, the table itself shifts into other identities: it becomes anthropomorphised through legs (snacks and…
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In her third exhibition at Deborah Schamoni, Aileen Murphy presents a series of five large-scale oil paintings. Departing from the motif of the table, the paintings unfold architecturally inflected structures that divide the pictorial space into an above and a below. What is decisive here is the performative engagement with the table as an everyday object that becomes a stage, opening up new spatial, bodily, and painterly possibilities. These tables are not sites of domestic, office, or productive labour. They are sites of play – variable systems of order that enable retreat and transition – within which animals repeatedly appear.
These animals shape the psychological temperature of the paintings. They inhabit the tables, which offer them support and a protective space. The animals may be read as stand-ins for humans whose existence is not fixed but conceived as fluid. At times, the table itself shifts into other identities: it becomes anthropomorphised through legs (snacks and…






























































