Amanda Ziemele

Amanda Ziemele is one of the most talented painters of the younger generation, who employs painting not only as a form, but also as a mode of thinking about painting itself.  Her paintings are presented at average human eye level and, in spite of the traditional “law of painting gravity,” they take their place both on the ceiling and closer to the ground. Employing the formal means of expression of abstract painting in combination with the spatial potential of installations, Ziemele not only poses questions about the place of painting in contemporary art but tries to find a new place where painting interacts with space beyond the mimetic tradition.  

These works from the exhibition “Kvantu matu implanti” (Quantum Hair Implants) should not be regarded as completely independent; rather, they are separate signs used by the artist to visually materialise and interpret her reflections about space, i.e. insights into the theory of relativity and other concepts of modern physics which do not provide unambiguous answers. As the artist writes: “The exhibition lays out opportunities for clearing up ambiguities with the aid of various spatial techniques, as well as difficulties in communicating about the exchange of information at the quantum and trans-body level.”  

A Raised Eyebrow. 2019.

Torso. 2019.