Katrine Levin Galleries

TOMA AND IK STENKO: ESSENCE

On view from 29th April - 11th May.

“For me, painting is a wild river which carries you and you don’t know where you will wind up. It is this unknown that gives birth to the magic of creativity! You dissolve, discarding all your thoughts, knowledge, and experience, and start everything from a blank canvas where every sound, colour, and rustle moves into being a new form, character, and space. I am obsessed with colour, its melody, scent, mood, depth…”

- Toma Stenko, 2024

Following Toma Stenko's inaugural London solo in 2020 and a critically acclaimed joint show with Ik Stenko as part of the Venice Biennale 2022, join us for the mother-and-son duo’s first joint UK exhibition. Toma Stenko unbelievably loves colour. For Toma, colour is the essence of love and love is the prism through which she perceives the world, searching for the best in everyone and everything. Hands are a recurring theme in her practice, the drawn outlines of previous works dissolving in fields of colour, then reintroduced as superimposed collage elements. The mother's influence on her son is unmistakable. Both share a unique creative energy expressed in vibrant colours. The exhibition includes works created in the last couple of years between studios in Georgia, Russia, London and Dubai.