It is a great pleasure for Galleri Christina Wilson to be able to present an exhibition by Eva Louise Buus in the project room of the gallery.

Eva Louise Buus works with the visual process that the encounter with her works calls forth in the observer. At first glance, the paintings she has created for the exhibition seem almost monochromatic – as though they were painted in just a single shade. Upon closer examination of their surfaces, however, the motifs gradually appear. Depending on where you stand, the motif is revealed, and the experience magically seduces the viewer.

The colours are essential in the works of Eva Louise Buus, because they often arise as a result of each other’s presence or absence. Many of the colours we think we see in the paintings are not actually there: it is Buus’ juxtaposition of colours that make the eyes and brain perceive the contrast between the colours she has actually used as something else. The apparent depth of the motifs in the pictures also arises solely by virtue of the effect of the colour surface. Eva Louise Buus wishes to actively engage the viewer in the encounter with her works, and it is in the motion of the observer in front of the paintings that they actually come into existence.

Eva Louise Buus is inspired by the Romantic period and by its quest for the sublime. The landscape motifs are recognisable, but unlike the great Romantic painters, Buus uses a minimum of colours in her works, and her motives are not associated with any specifically charged meanings.

Eva Louise Buus (b. 1979) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2009, and has recently held solo exhibitions in Copenhagen and in Greifswald, Germany. In connection with her exhibition in Germany, she received the Caspar David Friedrich Prize.