Katja Seib: The Softest Pain is the Pain au Chocolat

Dépendance presents a solo show by German artist Katja Seib.  Seib creates works that are simultaneously familiar and strange, combining a subtle interplay of texture and image with deft brushwork and a meticulous attention to detail. She incorporates symbolism into her figurative paintings to create surreal compositions. Human figures are central, which are rendered on raw hessian from photographs the artist takes on her phone, along with elements from memory.

With The softest pain is the pain au chocolat the artist returns to dépendance following her first solo exhibition with the gallery in 2020, this time presenting ceramics alongside paintings.