About

Rahma Lhoussig’s works feature a protagonist who seems to float against flat pastel grounds, anchored by islands of detail: balloons, discarded objects, stuffed bears and live birds. She exists in a state of imagination that evokes adolescent reverie as well as a sort of in camera Wonderland, where one might speak to an invisible friend, or share a bit of cake with a stork. Areas of the canvas remain undefined, as realism gives way to space—marked here and there with scribbled musings that reveal Lhoussig’s fascinating process. She invites the viewer to enter this territory of …