Stefanie Heinze @ Pippy Houldsworth

Stories of the Imaginary (self-portrait of two lemons), is an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Stefanie Heinze – a playful and introspective body of work, which blurs the boundaries between waking and dreaming.

Through expressive arrangements, Heinze draws on recent experience of restricted movement and limited social interaction, offering the surface of the canvas as a space of the imagination – a substitute for closeness and touch. Proposing an implausible notion – a self-portrait of two individuals – the artist explores dualities, reflections and doubling in relation to constructions of selfhood.