Oh de Laval

Overview

Oh de Laval, My liver has to handle what my heat cannot, 2021 (detail)

I paint to taste life twice: in the moment and in the retrospection.

— Oh de Laval

The work of Polish-Thai artist Oh de Laval is concerned with human behaviour: the decisions we make, why we make them and how we feel as a result. These decisions are windows into our very personalities. In this spirit, each of de Laval’s paintings acts as a window into her character, her pleasures and her imaginings.

Among de Laval’s varied inspirations are Francis Bacon’s hedonistic lifestyle, sociologist Émile Durkheim’s theory that deviance is necessary to a functioning, successful society, and her love for the French New Wave, Italian cinema, and Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky.

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Biography

Oh de Laval, No mercy, 2021 (detail)

Born in Warsaw, Poland

Works and lives in Paris, France

Solo Exhibition

2021	Unit London,‘Wild Things Happen in Stillness’, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2022	Brigade Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021	Galerie Droste, ‘Chronicles 3 at KPM Berlin’, Berlin, Germany
	Asia Art Centre, ‘My Secret Garden,’ curated by Melanie Lum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Xiao Foundation, Group Exhibition curated by Hans Werner Holzwarth, Hong Kong
	Villa Merkel, ‘Ein Museum auf Probe’, Esslingen, Germany
2020	Galerie Droste, ‘Watchlist’, Paris, France
	Unit London, ‘Drawn Together’(online), London, UK
	Unit London, ‘Alter Ego’, London, UK