LILI KURZFELD

ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice revolves around the depictions of interior spaces, the focus on mundanity, and how this can evoke a sense of uncertainty. I am interested in painting that uses texture and colour to create depth of meaning. Within my own practice, I utilise materials such as oil paint to manipulate and gesturalise a fabricated living space. Focusing on the theme of absence, the goal of my work is present an interior that situates itself on the border of safety and uncanny. Primarily, my aim is to to create loose, gestural structures, that leave the viewer unsure as to how they should feel. Contrasting elements of colour, tonality and subject matter, blur the lines of normality and risk, as seen within my interior spaces series, created within my university studio practice.