Henni Alftan (b. 1979, Helsinki) is a Paris-based painter whose work examines the relationship between painting and the image. Drawing from fragments of everyday experience, she constructs tightly framed scenes in which figures, objects and gestures acquire an intensity that exceeds their apparent simplicity.
What does it mean to paint the everyday when the everyday has already become art
history? In Prose, Louis Fratino’s first solo exhibition with David Zwirner in London, the
answer might seem straightforward: to take life as it is—rooms, bodies, sex, friends, family, subway cars, cafés, saunas—and return it to painting.
In an age saturated by images, Marina Perez Simão’s paintings return to a slower and more attentive mode of seeing. Working across painting, watercolour, textiles and drawing, she develops a practice rooted in accumulation, intuition and the gradual emergence of images from experience.