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My paintings are dynamic entities that interact and self reflect, tempting viewers to rethink what a painting can be. They move off the walls, invert themselves, and show their backsides proudly as they become sculptural elements enticing viewers to view them from all sides. Paint becomes both subject and actor accentuating its liquid quality while flowing through pictorial space and more literally the raw canvas. The back sides of images become the front. Transition and change are at the heart of this, as they are in contemporary human experience. The work embodies a spirit of playfulness that is true to the essence of the creative process.
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Bibi Katholm
Visual artist. MA Painting, Royal College of Art London.
Born in Denmark and currently based in Copenhagen.
Bibi Katholm’s painting is about movement, time, rhythm and fluidity. She is interested in the nature of painting and how it has survived several dissolutions and declines, but still persists as a lively and bodily artistic medium. One that’s never actually challenged by technological advancement or artificial intelligence.
Katholm’s works are characterised by an abstract force, freed from the restraint of specific narrative interpretation. In this sense, her works emerge like the collapse of a singular signifying language, while addressing the rise of movement, co-activity, experimentation, hybridisation and improvisational actions.
Katholm has travelled extensively while exhibiting her work and curating exhibitions internationally. She has had work presented in various group and solo exhibitions in cities such as Copenhagen, London, Berlin, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, and New York.
