Lot 232 - Selena Corsellis - Obras de Santa Engrácia 1/3

Oil and pigments on gesso
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Corsellis’ delicate paintings explore the interplay of light and shadow within interior spaces, capturing fleeting, existential moments in ambiguous, often desolate settings. These shifting movements of light and shadow she depicts mirror the fluid and uncertain nature of our own lives, drawing a connection between the external world and the internal sense of awe and contemplation it evokes. Through both intimate and expansive compositions, Corsellis’ aim is to provide moments of contemplation, rumination and empirical insight.

Education
2020-2024
BA Fine Art from Leeds University of Art

Group Exhibitions
2024
Ones to Watch Exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills, Yorkshire, Leeds
Within and Without, Liliya Gallery Putney, London

2023
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
The three paintings, titled Obras de Santa Engrácia, depict the stairwells of Lisbon's National Pantheon. Each work explores the interplay of light and shadow, guiding the viewer through passages that seem to have no clear beginning or end. This reflects the metaphorical essence of the title, symbolizing the perpetual, ongoing process of constructing the Santa Engrácia church—an endeavour that, in a way much like the paintings themselves, is never truly completed.