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    A chalky, pink paper spiral, shaped like a snails shell, has been cut from an A4 sheet of paper and projects outwards, revealing a line drawing through the cutout arch. The spiral is supported by a wire and attached to a wooden frame.
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    Trail Snail, Indianna Solnick, 2022, chalk on paper collage with wire suspension, 31 x 25 x 10 cm

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    A painting on paper in which bright green frames a diagrammatic image in reds, ochre and deep magenta. Forms include arrows, grids and circular bubbles.
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    Channel 3, Indianna Solnick, 2023, chalk and watercolour on paper, 42 x 60 cm

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    A paper work of a diagram framed by red and yellow marks. The image shows a flower-like form with one black petal.
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    Daisy 3, Indianna Solnick, 2023, chalk and watercolour on paper, 42 x 60 cm

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  4. Indianna Solnick – MA/MFA/PhD

Indianna Solnick – MA/MFA/PhD

Based in London and Helsinki

I am a painter and sculptor working mainly with paper to create dramatic and yet delicate spacial interventions. My surfaces are built from composites of paper or wooden struts continually dismantled and rebuilt. The works expand from the wall, wrapping and spiralling to form interior voids, enclosures and passageways. Here the paintings pose questions about the nature and possibilities of surface: a painting existing along a sculptural line, drawing an enclosure, turned in away from the viewer. I am fascinated by the ways that we construct our environment, occupy it, and navigate it. I map the city by walking, following footpaths and seeking out the unsense and the inaccessible: enclosures, boundaries, alleyways, the overlooked and awkward inbetweens. How do we sit as citizens within the infrastructure of our world? How do we uphold it and how do we rebel?