Katja Seib

Katja Seib’s second exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ comprises a group of new paintings and works on paper. These reveal a newly autobiographical focus, featuring depictions of her partner, their child, and other people from her life. And yet, throughout Seib’s latest works, ‘real life’ is poised to slide into a dreamlike register – refracted by symbolism and historical imagery.

Remington hot springs (2022) is a three-part painting in oil on linen, depicting figures bathing in a hot spring. One man sits with his limbs extended, his feet plunging into the foreground with elongated perspective. A second man crouches in the centre panel, half-submerged, and looks towards a figure who lies beyond the perimeter of the third canvas – visible only as a hand and foot at the very edge of the image. 

The picture originated in a trip to the Sequoia National Park, close to the artist’s home in Los Angeles. But she has abstracted the scene away from the specific moment. “I feel like the painting could be continued and continued,” she has commented, suggesting that the image has the capacity to reach beyond itself, into other realities. In its subject matter, it invokes multiple historical depictions of bathers in sunlit enclaves. At the same time, surreal additions – frogs and snakes that frolic in the water – puncture the naturalistic surface, engendering the air of a dream.

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Katja Seib

10 is not a 9, 2022

oil on linen

61 x 45.7 cm / 24 x 18 in