IN THE DEPTHS OF BLUE THERE IS YELLOW

In the exhibition In the Depths of Blue there is Yellow, Kristoffer Zeiner brings together the work of Kim Wawer and Philip Coyne. In preparation, both artists read Gaston Bachelard's essay Reveries of Material Interiority, in which he argues that objects harbour interior worlds—endless treasure troves of ideas, associations, and new connections accessible through reveries and musings. Kim Wawer's ceramic work is intimately connected to the body. Her organic sculptures are often modelled on her own measurements, rendering them wearable or making them feel like extensions of a human body. Pierced and branching forms function as vessels: carriers of interior worlds that simultaneously hold an autonomous material presence. The tactile apertures and organic shapes invite an exploration of the relationship between body, object, and space.

Philip Coyne (UK, 1989) works across sculpture, drawing, 2D objects, and text. His practice investigates how historical and social structures separate us from one another and from the world around us, and how creative forces navigate within these structures. Large-scale 2D works combine figuration, urban landscapes, historical sources, and literature, while smaller sculptures and drawings focus on the artwork itself as a receptor of social and material forces. For this exhibition, Coyne copied human figures from the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840). By extracting these figures from their original context, their function shifts, yet they continue to reference the interior richness of the landscapes they once inhabited.