Christie Contemporary is pleased to present These Are The Edges, an exhibition of new work by Larissa Tiggelers, opening Saturday, March 5 and continuing until April 2, 2022.
While Tiggelers’ paintings have always embraced complex colour, past expressions of this complexity were concentrated in measured chromatic relationships, with colours calibrated in consideration of previously applied and neighbouring hues. Here, every colour is independent. This strategy furthers Tiggelers’ questioning of the hierarchical relationships inherent in representing or alluding to the illusion of space. Her compositional frames of rich, chromatic black demonstrate this by initially appearing to limit and contain the interior colours, an inclination undermined with the detection of faint ridges of paint that radiate out from the interior forms. These spines of paint—revealed not with highlight and shadow, but concealed by dark shades—come into view slowly, reorganizing an assumed, structural logic, hinting instead at a hovering weightlessness.