Katrine Levin Galleries and Coningsby Gallery are delighted to announce a new solo exhibition by Olga Goldina Hirsch The solstice begins! that will run from 16th to 22nd September 2024 in Fitzrovia. The exhibition will feature twenty-three paintings made over the last six years. The works punctuate a development in the artist's practice which investigates conceptual abstraction and the possibility of representing episodes of long-lost memories on the two-dimensional plane trough creating spatial depths and layers of transparent tones. The artist makes her paintings in mixed media, using layers of paint, and various kinds of printing.

The exhibition sets one on a metaphorical journey through the eternal cycles of the Solstice, from life to death and from death to rebirth. The artist's works are oneiric in character, delving into the issues of identity and internal spaces of dreams and recollections. While walking through the exhibition, one has to travel through a White room filled with childhood memories and sounds to the depths of Mnemosyne (the source of Memory, and the spring of creativity). It is a meditation on the cycles of life, ebbs and flows of memory and the pulsations of cosmic energy through us and the Universe.

In the words of Olga Goldina Hirsch: "a solstice occurs twice a year. The solstices are traditionally considered to signify the start of summer and winter. One brings in warmth, the other one ushers in cold. Each solstice marks a shift in rhythms and moods, in which we live and create. Twice a year during the solstice we are given a chance to examine our past and sketch out our future".