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Where is the borderline between boundless enjoyment and letting oneself be carried away by la dolce vita and the danger of falling into excess, into what poisons and threatens to harm? How to decrypt the facial expressions of revelry and delight, and conversely, those of torment?

The people who live in Nina Bachmann's paintings move in these terrains of blurred, half-drawn lines. The temptation of excess and the fascination for enjoyment veer towards the unhealthy, the intoxicating. In the artist's words, Sugar in the eyes alludes to la dolce vita, to what is loved, to happiness, to …