In this exhibition, Kate Lewis proposes a contemporary re-reading of interior painting, where the domestic space becomes a true pictorial stage. Rather than faithfully describing a place, her compositions reveal its poetic and chromatic resonance. Half-open windows, doors, and views toward the outside appear as thresholds – between intimacy and landscape, between the home and the world.
Overflowing bookshelves, patterned carpets, textiles, bouquets, and familiar objects form a dense visual vocabulary in which décor becomes a subject in its own right. Bathed in light, these interiors are composed with a deliberate frontality that flattens perspective and gives the scenes an almost iconic quality.
The rooms appear silent, suspended in a moment of contemplation, yet filled with subtle signs of habitation. Through her attention to color, pattern, and surface, Lewis invites the viewer to slow down and explore the painting as a space of visual experience.
For this exhibition, Sophie Aguilera is invited to create a dialogue with Kate Lewis’s paintings through her ceramic flower arrangements. Her sculpted bouquets extend the floral motifs found within the canvases into the gallery space, creating a sensitive exchange between pictorial surface and sculptural presence, between imagined interior and physical form.
