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Next up in our series highlighting individual artists from exhibition Morphogenesis at Pulchri Studio is Jacqueline Louter.
In the exhibition she presents Echoes of Eden, a diptych that opens from right to left—like a return to the beginning. The right panel, in a deep volcanic red, echoing the origins of our planet; the left panel, in a warm gold, catching the light. Both panels are filled with blooming shapes and organic forms that seem to drift between reality and dream. Odilon Redon, with his dreamlike visions, serves as a quiet guide in this work. His Darwinian sensibility - the belief in a shared origin of all life - resonates throughout. Darwin wrote:
“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
This sense of oneness flows through - towards something we know, something elemental, innate and universal.
Echoes of Eden consists of two panels, each composed of a sublimation print on mesh textile, stretched over a wooden frame, layered over a giclée print on eco Palboard, jointly mounted in a wooden floater frame.
In the see-through display case Louter presents 'Wonderful Creatures', two box-like shapes formed by wooden frames covered by semi-transparent voile fabric. These delicate surfaces hold images of orchids—caught in a suspended dance between visibility and concealment.
The work draws on Darwin’s admiration: “They are wonderful creatures, these Orchids...”—not to explain, but as a question unfolding. Rather than offering clear answers, it invites attention—to what shimmers in between.
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