Julia Selin – Sun's Show

In the organizer's words:

Galerie Leu is pleased to present Julia Selin's first solo exhibition in Germany.

In her works, Julia Selin develops pictorial spaces that move between landscape and abstraction. Works of great atmospheric density emerge from a processual, physically influenced approach to painting. In reduced, often almost monochrome worlds of color, spaces open up that elude clear localization and oscillate between the external experience of nature and inner experience. Experiences of nature thus become images that evoke states rather than landscapes. Selin's works revolve around what lies beneath the visible surface: an urge from below, a rise of form from the depths.

In the current works, these processes condense into pictorial spaces that appear both closed and permeable at the same time. Dark color fields open up into subtle shifts of light and pigment. Vertical settlements structure the space without stabilizing it; lines dissolve into vibrating movements. The paintings appear less composed than exposed - as if they were continuing to develop as you look at them.

Julia Selin (*1986 in Trollhättan, Sweden) is a contemporary Swedish painter who lives and works in Malmö. She completed an MFA degree at the Umeå Art Academy and also studied at the Nordic Art School in Finland. Her recent exhibitions include Julia Selin knows nothing about the trees at Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen (DK, 2024), Moth Paths at Tara Downs, New York (US, 2023), Present Nature at Alma Löv Museum of Unexpected Art, Smedsby (SE, 2023), Follow a bug to the end of the World at Trollhättans Konsthall (SE, 2022), Consequences at Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simrishamn (SE, 2022), and Scandinavian rot at Galleri Cora Hillebrand, Gothenburg (SE, 2020).