Finnish painter Ida Vikfors allows to find solid ground by exploring shapes and shadow
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A painter searches for steadiness in simple means, working shape against shadow until the canvas settles.
The paintings are quiet and deliberate, built from a small vocabulary of forms repeated and adjusted. Shadow is treated as a material, weighed as carefully as any pigment.
Colour is held back to a muted range, so the work depends on proportion and balance rather than contrast. The restraint gives the surfaces their stillness.
Shadow is treated as a material, weighed as carefully as any pigment.
Hung in a plain room, the paintings ask for patience and reward it. There is solidity in their reticence, a sense of ground found rather than declared.