Close to Me brings together a selection of paintings by Christina Gschwantner that reflect on what it means to feel close to a person, a memory, or a moment. Through layered color and intuitive gesture, the works build spaces that are not descriptive, but felt. They hold emotional traces rather than fixed images, shifting between clarity and disappearance, presence and distance.
Gschwantner’s practice moves through abstraction as a way of capturing what cannot be fully held in language. Each work carries a sense of movement and accumulation, where color becomes both structure and emotion. Rather than pointing to something specific, the paintings stay open, offering moments that feel familiar without being defined.
Presented at the gallery, the works are placed in dialogue with one another in a way that allows their rhythms to unfold slowly across the space. The exhibition becomes a setting for quiet encounter, where proximity is not only the subject of the work, but also part of how it is experienced.
Close to Me ultimately proposes closeness as something fluid rather than fixed. Something that shifts over time, shaped by attention, memory, and the act of looking itself.
Download the document below for a more in-depth look at the exhibition, including installation views and detailed images of the works.
