Interested in our human need for meaning, Lily Rose Fine examines what devotion looks like in a modern context, through potent symbolism, memorabilia, and art making as an attempt at an afterlife. Within a collected language of iconography inspired by relics, antique objects, cinema, theatre, and art history, she casts herself and those close to her as recurring actors that embody narratives of intimacy, obsession, preservation, and privacy. Fine often uses antiques and found objects as extensions of her paintings. Thinking about everyday personal belongings as relics and devotional objects, she grasps at an elusive feeling within everything she makes; one that captures the eery mystery of encountering the public future of private, personal, anonymous ephemera. Depicting her own ineffable personal experiences veiled with ambiguity, she invites a collaboration with viewers’ inquiries, projections and instinctive storytelling, often becoming a mirror for self-reflection.
Lily Rose Fine
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