Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse

14 Mar-17 Apr 2025

Overview

Victoria Miro is delighted to present new paintings by Inka Essenhigh. The New York-based artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery comprises a body of work completed during the past year, featuring botanical, landscape and figurative motifs poised between an exuberant exterior world and an energetic interior consciousness. 

Inka Essenhigh’s paintings seduce and disarm in equal measure. Each painting is a complete world in itself, impeccably realised, governed by its own logic and in possession of its own narrative. Each has its own ecology and its protagonists – human, floral, or other. Each radiates its own particular quality of light. We recognise aspects of these works implicitly: the pallor of fungal matter; the weight of a poppy’s petal – even if that fungi starts to resemble the woodwind section of a ghostly orchestra or that petal looks to be migrating to human form. 

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