Madness and Practice
Liz Dawson + Lucy Teasdale

Saturday, Feb 7, 2026, from 6 pm
Finissage + Artist Talk
Including an artist talk at 6.30 pm, moderated by Ilyn Wong

The talk will take place in English, but questions in German are welcome. Tea and cake will be served

With Madness and Practice, painter Liz Dawson and sculptor Lucy Teasdale present new works that stage a quiet conflict between apparent intuition and rigorous construction. The title suggests a persistence that may register as futile or even obsessive, but is in fact an unflagging attentiveness to process, repetition, and control. Throughout the exhibition, surfaces and gestures promise immediacy while quietly betraying the labor and artifice beneath them. The works posit that this persistence is not a symptom of irrationality, but its inverse: practice – understood as sustained, almost ritualized work undertaken in pursuit of a particular kind of virtuosity.

Text: Ilyn Wong  (You can read the full text on the website)
Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul

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