Leeahn Gallery Seoul is pleased to present "My Frame Your Frame”, a solo exhibition by the Dutch artist Katinka Lampe, from November 23, 2023, to January 10, 2024. This is her third solo exhibition with Leeahn Gallery.
It is conspicuous that the exhibition title “My Frame Your Frame” repeats the word “frame” twice. What is a frame? It is, before anything else, a constraint. It conditions how we see things, forcing us to view a specific object in a specific way. Lampe's paintings are characterized by bold croppings, unique angles, zoom-ins, and larger-than-life representations, which are various ways of creating frames.
Lampe does not conceal the fact that her paintings are "photography-based", which doesn't mean that she uses photographs as mere references for her painting. It rather indicates that the actual basis of her oil paintings is photography. Before picking up her brush, Lampe starts by setting up scenes, using models, props, and lighting and takes photographs. At the end of this process, a “frame” is obtained. In a sense, Lampe’s oil paintings are not only ‘based’ on photo stills, but are, to an extent, photo stills in themselves. This is why her works often imply a sense of (although ambiguous) dramatic context, despite her efforts to eliminate narrative elements.
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