Artists

Eva Helene Pade

Press release

OverviewWith my figurative painting, I create blurred lines or gaps that become the language for the things we can’t put into words. That’s what I envy so much about abstraction, it’s already working in a realm for which language does not exist. — Eva Helene Pade

Thaddaeus Ropac London presents Eva Helene Pade’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Following the Danish-born, Paris-based artist’s institutional debut at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark earlier this year, the exhibition, titled Søgelys, brings together a significant new group of paintings in which Pade continues to explore the violent and seductive forces that exist between bodies in space. Her monumental and small-scale canvases are suspended on floor-to-ceiling metal posts, set away from the walls to create dynamic spatial configurations. Much like choreography, ‘it forces people to move within them,’ she says, ‘but also to connect the paintings together. I create them together, like an ensemble; they talk together.’ The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, including an essay by Hendrik Folkerts, Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.