Twisted Landscape

This artwork featured in Synthetic Landscapes (2017).

After painting and installation, Muheim now devotes all her energies to drawing. Attracted by its fragility, she made this medium her own by committing to a deep and constant engagement. Using rare specialist paper, powdered graphite and the unusual addition of eye shadow make up, Muheim rubs, draws and erases, building thin layers into complex textures and sumptuous compositions.

Landscape has always occupied a prominent place, an almost physical space, in both her conscious and unconscious makeup. Constant trips into the landscape, whether in the Swiss Alps as a child or later in India, have imprinted themselves on her soul.

Under this physical plane, a subterranean world stirs, an arcane stage for all manners of manifestations; dreams and personal drama, deceptive memories and fantasies, cryptic tales and furtive encounters. Muheim’s esoteric landscapes reconsider our connection to the world and to the image.

Image: Hélène Muheim, Twisted Landscape. Image courtesy of the artist.

 

About the artist

Hélène Muheim

Hélène Muheim exhibited in Synthetic Landscapes, Weston Park; Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, 2017.

Image: Hélène Muheim, Twisted Landscape. Graphite and eye shadows on paper. Courtesy the artist.