Artists

Henni Alftan

Press release

By skilfully employing scale, perspective and texture, Henni Alftan reveals the strangeness in the ordinary. The exhibition title _By the Skin of My Teeth_, an idiom that signifies narrowly avoiding failure or just barely succeeding, evokes the atmosphere of the uncanny that pervades Alftan’s works. They exist on the threshold of representation, capturing the subject with only the thinnest margin of detail. Alftan’s is a brand of realism that is achieved not through excess but by restraint; much like the elusive ‘skin’ of teeth, any fewer particulars and the image risks tipping into mere abstraction.