Anna Munk discusses Ombres, her first solo exhibition at Galleri Nicolai Wallner.

Munk’s work sits within multiple registers, crossing the historical, exploratory, formal and conceptual. Within her paintings, there can be found traces of the intimate and personal alongside material and theoretical questioning of society’s visual hierarchies. Ombres comprises seven still-life paintings, each simultaneously ephemeral and substantial, with their larger-than-life scale and objects that dissolve into the background.

Each of the seven works uses as its point of departure a historical still life painting and a colour palette from the iconic Chanel line of eyeshadows, from whence the exhibition and each painting take their names. Powdered marble, rabbit-skin glue, oil paint, wax, eyeshadows, varnish, and the digital archives of national museums all work equally to give a work its form, acting as materials rather than subjects of an image. Like a choreographer, Munk shapes symbols of beauty, and exclusivity into an expression of time, impermanence, and the body.

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