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Olivia van Kuiken

Info: Olivia van Kuiken (b. 1997) is a New York-based contemporary painter, engaged primarily in the underlying mechanisms of the alienated experience. Her works upend traditional notions of representation and dislocate language, seeking to push forms, shapes and symbols to the edge of their meaning. Subjects are immersed within wayward panels and fractured landscapes, as gestural marks, pools of colour and overlaid motifs coalesce fragmented compositions. Drawing upon myriad literary references, van Kuiken pursues the complexity of language, linguistically as much as visually, in painterly considerations on how the history of the medium may relate to and open the space beyond this system of communication. Location: Caprii, Orangeriestr. 6, 40213 Düsseldorf.