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Janiva Ellis’s (b. 1987) first institutional solo exhibition in Europe opens with a dialogue across eleven paintings made specifically for this occasion. The works incorporate representational imagery and abstraction, moving through contradictions and complexities.
Three threads traverse the exhibition: the religious, the landscape, and the erotic. Each carries a long association to painting and has been renegotiated repeatedly throughout art history. Ellis works her way through the existential questions that European art history has passed down as universal and unavoidable. These are not mere subjects but inherited, canonical structures of meaning that the artist inhabits and metabolizes, laying bare what they keep silent. Language runs through the work in a similar way: it can hold meaning together but also allow it to drift apart, thus revealing simultaneously what the act of naming omits.
What rises to the surface in each painting may at first glance appear to be the…
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Introduction
Janiva Ellis’s (b. 1987) first institutional solo exhibition in Europe opens with a dialogue across eleven paintings made specifically for this occasion. The works incorporate representational imagery and abstraction, moving through contradictions and complexities.
Three threads traverse the exhibition: the religious, the landscape, and the erotic. Each carries a long association to painting and has been renegotiated repeatedly throughout art history. Ellis works her way through the existential questions that European art history has passed down as universal and unavoidable. These are not mere subjects but inherited, canonical structures of meaning that the artist inhabits and metabolizes, laying bare what they keep silent. Language runs through the work in a similar way: it can hold meaning together but also allow it to drift apart, thus revealing simultaneously what the act of naming omits.
What rises to the surface in each painting may at first glance appear to be the…
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