Pippa El-Kadhi Brown British - Iraqi, b. 1996
To Dance with the Night, 2025
Oil on canvas
100 x 150.5 x 2 cm
39 3/8 x 59 1/4 x 3/4 in
39 3/8 x 59 1/4 x 3/4 in
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To Dance with the Night moves into deep teal, cobalt and burgundy, the composition built from swirling, luminous marks that suggest bioluminescence or the interior of a body observed from within. The handling is fluid and continuous, forms dissolving into one another without the harder edges present in some of El-Kadhi Brown's denser works. Small points of near-white light punctuate the surface, giving the composition spatial depth and a quality of suspended motion.