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FIAT LUX – solo exhibition by Laura Lowe | Forum Box Helsinki



FIAT LUX


Solo exhibition
Galleria Forum Box, Helsinki
2 – 24 May 2026

Welcome to the opening Thursday 30 April 5 – 7 pm
and artist talk on Saturday 16 May 2 – 3 pm.
 

FIAT LUX presents Laura Lowe’s latest Structural Colour Paintings, based on observations of melting ice made with polarised light microscopy during the Ars Bioarctica residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Polarisation reveals colour spectra in the ice crystals, allowing the otherwise invisible structures and their change to be seen. The works exhibited mimic the transparencies, reflectivities and structural colours formed within melting ice. Lowe’s process is near alchemical in nature: the immaterial-seeming colours of her paintings emerge like in a prism, as light refracts through translucent layers of paint. In Lowe’s work, the study of light has deepened from a technical enquiry into the thematic core of the work: how energy transforms inanimate matter into something living.

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Accompanied by an introductory essay written by art critic Sanna Lipponen.




Supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.


2026. Oil, alkyd, salt, glass, pigment, and varnish on canvas. 160 x 120.
 




2026. Oil, alkyd, salt, glass, pigment, and varnish on canvas. 160 x 120. 2026. Oil, alkyd, salt, glass, pigment, and varnish on canvas. 200 x 180. 2026. Oil, alkyd, salt, glass, pigment, and varnish on canvas. 80 x 60. 2026. Oil, alkyd, salt, glass, pigment, and varnish on canvas. 80 x 60. 2026. Oil, alkyd, salt, glass, pigment, and varnish on canvas. 160 x 120.
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