This weekend is your last Chance to see Camilla Engström solo exhibition MANTLE in the CHAPEL of ST. AGNES. 📅 until 4 SEPTEMBER 📍 ST. AGNES CHAPEL Engström’s (@camillamengstrom) practice encompasses painting, drawing, and sculpture, operating between colour-rich landscapes and figurative expression. For her exhibition in Berlin, Engström has created five new oil on canvas paintings that showcase her characteristic trippy, hallucinogenic palette and voluptuous curving forms in sorbet-coloured hues. With these new works, Engström channels both the erotic charge of Georgia O’Keeffe and the spiritual vigour of fellow Swede, Hilma af Klint. These new paintings dive deeper into the texture of landscape, abandoning the human form in favour of imaginary settings – brightly lit and undulating with Engström’s curvy lines. The resulting images are sunbathed, from a light source that emanates from somewhere outside the picture frame, as the sun as object is featured in all but one of the paintings. There is a warmth and quiet stillness in all of the works, reflecting Engström’s long-standing meditation practice. She refers to herself as a mostly self-taught artist, having previously studied fashion, making her way to the canvas mostly through drawing. The Los Angeles-based artist spent time in New York and assisted other painters in her friend circle to realise their own projects before embarking on her own. The sun plays a large role within Engström’s work, both as subject and as context, where her images often feature a small, glowing circle, and seem themselves to be illuminated by an inner light. For the works in this show, it appears as though the sun is on its way up, a distant figure that playfully hovers above a luminous daylight in all its sensuality. In YOU SEE YOU, foreground and background have merged, leaving us face-to-face with an ocular-shaped orb, a direct address leaving us with nowhere to hide. Photo: © Images Roman März #königgalerie #camillagenström