Jemima Stehli
Deep Light, 2024
Oil and wax on linen
58 x 48 cm
Signed and dated
Copyright The Artist
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As with her photographic work, Stehli’s ‘performance paintings’ are determined by the reach, movement, and limitations of her body. The composition and execution of her large-scale abstract works recall the...
As with her photographic work, Stehli’s ‘performance paintings’ are determined by the reach, movement, and limitations of her body. The composition and execution of her large-scale abstract works recall the blurred moving figures of earlier photographs. Paint is poured onto the canvas, moved and drawn with the artist’s hands in direct contact with the surface. Reasserting the deeply visceral approach that has always been at the core of her practice, Stehli embraces the absence of imagery and control in favour of material immediacy and pleasure, working fast with layers of fluid washes, waxy and oily texture – she is fully immersed in the process.
