ART GENÈVE 2025

ART GENÈVE 2025
SOLO PRESENTATION ESTHER MATHIS

JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 2
BOOTH D35

Livie Gallery is delighted to participate at Art Genève for the second time with a solo booth by Esther Mathis (*1985 Winterthur, Switzerland, lives and works in Zurich).

Esther Mathis’ practice examines light, and how it inspires human perception to create specific memories, combining both scientific inquiry with poetic expression. Her practice navigates the interplay between natural and artificial light, often incorporating elements of architecture and alchemical processes, while challenging conventional notions of how these elements shape our sensory experiences. Her works often show an interplay between constructed forms and organic processes, balancing control with spontaneity. Esther Mathis’ work resonates with current discourses on perception, memory, and the sensory impact of modern environments.

For Art Genève 2025, Esther Mathis is presenting new sculptural works in continuation of her Shifting Structures series, first shown at her institutional show at Spazi Spescha in Trun as well as at the group exhibition Verbinden at Helmhaus Zurich in 2024. The aluminum structures are in a dialogue with glass works from Mathis’ Fenster group. Shifting Structures are rectangular modular aluminum sculptures that vary in size and echo geometric grids of industrial windows. Their surfaces reflect and distort the surrounding environment. As Seraina Peer, the curator of the exhibition at Spazi Spescha writes: “the material properties such as density and weight of the aluminum sheet determine the form of the sculptures, lending a flowing note to the work. For Mathis, engaging with the material and reacting to it is also central: the structure of the sculptures is stable because it is not rigid, but can adapt. Stability is achieved through flexibility. Themes such as adaptability, support and security through structure and movement also resonate on a personal level and are expressed in the title Shifting Structures.”

Leila Peacock writes about Mathis’ Fenster works: “Esther Mathis has recreated from memory windows of particular significance to her. Windows that she has spent many hours looking out through, and where she has watched the light come dancing in. These works evoke the remembered atmosphere of those window-lit spaces. Memory is often conceived of as a kind of glass through which we watch refractions of our previous selves as they fade into the distant past. And yet, it is hard to recall memories that specifically relate to light, and those we have are almost always related to windows we have known.”

More information about Art Genève here.