Hanneline Visnes

Pump House Gallery is delighted to present Hanneline Visnes’ first solo exhibition in London. For this exhibition Visnes will exhibit newly commissioned site-specific work alongside work that she made during her recent year-long residency in Amsterdam, as well as some key earlier pieces. Visnes is known for her breathtakingly intricate, highly crafted drawings and paintings which often employ repetitive floral patterns reminiscent of Persian tiles and entangles them with heraldic, religious and memento mori iconography such as skulls, eyes, feathers and candles. It is these enigmatic motifs alongside the abandonment of the single-point perspective that produce fantastical portals and scenarios full of contradictions, doubt and fragility inviting the viewer to question the symbolism and to develop narratives in their own mind.
 
Kindly supported by Norwegian Embassy.