Lexia Hachtmann 

Lexia Hachtmann, Waiting for time to pass me by, 2024, Oil on canvas, 35 x 70 cm

LKIF is pleased to present ‘Haze’ – a solo exhibition by Lexia Hachtmann, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Seoul, opening on
Tuesday 6 August.

Lexia Hachtmann, Another Year, 2024, Oil on canvas, 70 x 45 cm

This exhibition features 10 paintings drawn from certain events of life – birthday, graduation, playing games and other everyday
situations in a intimate setting – in both large and small formats. Her depictions exist in a state of flux and are a refection and
questioning of our sense of time, resonating with both the future (something about to occur) and the past (a memory)
simultaneously. The work provides a vulnerable description of what happens during intimate and mundane moments.
Hachtmann weaves together narratives where memory can transpose fact and fiction, and speaks to this ambivalence inherent
in the portrayed images, which is a running theme throughout the show. Next to this, the title of the exhibition ‘Haze’ also
indicates that the works find their rendering only at a second glance.

Lexia Hachtmann, Spin the Bottle, 2023, Oil on canvas, 80 x 90 cm

“Even though the images hint at the mundane and the everyday – there is a certain uncanniness around them, and an
ambivalence in the objects depicted. This makes the audience pose questions towards the work. I like this idea that painting
demands a moment of stillness from the viewer in our busy worlds to be understood, felt or seen” she explains referring to
‘Haze’ as being the content of her work as well as a painterly discourse.

Lexia Hachtmann, Doorway, 2024, Oil on canvas, 190 x 80 cm

The artist intends the separate works in the show to form subjective narratives that lead to different storyboards by activating the
‘Off-Screen’ dynamic, which allows the viewer to be in charge to navigate and piece it together for themselves. Hachtmann uses
the close-up frame, boldly cropped scenes, as a vehicle to navigate this notion. Everyday moments and depictions of
reoccurring symbols – like the flower or flame – offer clues that hint at ideas central to the Vanitas still life and the ‘Carpe Diem’
gesture. These act as makers to connect and engage the works in a trajectory to remind the viewer of their own lives; of intimate
moments, of the passing of time, vulnerability, hope and last but not least, the haze of it all.

Eventually in this exhibition the viewer creates their own storyboard through subjective associations to the images by
Hachtmann. The work is a nudge to think about and reconnect to personal moments.

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