Í EILÍFUM BLÓMA // FOREVER IN BLOOM

Solo exhibition at Hospitalet with Carl Kostyál Gallery in April 2025.

The main elements of the show are flowers, spiders and wine. The wine and flowers are alluring and enticing while spiders evoke fear and repulsion. Spiders are naturally attracted to flowers, occasionally something small and unpleasant can sneak its way into something desirable, spoiling its appeal.

Painted flowers are forever in bloom, captured and preserved on the canvas. In this exhibition  they are paired with plastic and ice, materials which also attempt to preserve and immortalize. These see-through elements; plastic, frost and glass, are the throughline of the show, both containing and obstructing the subjects. The glasses that hold the wine, the plastic that is artificial and toxic and the frost that encloses and preserves. 

The works contain many echoing and contrasting elements. The wine glasses and the frost are shiny and appealing, cold and hard to the touch yet breakable and fragile. Both the flower petals and the plastic bags are thin and delicate. The plastic wrapping resembles a spider web and fake flowers attract spiders just like the real ones. The flowers wilt in the wine and suffocate in the plastic. The paintings show wine glasses that resemble flowers and flowers that resemble spiders. Glass stems and flower stems. Drops and frost. Dew and wine. 

It all combines in a feeling of unattainable longing, of fragility and fleetingness. Of just trying to enjoy a small comfort- a glass of wine or flowers but by trying to avoid any unpleasantness they all melt together, rendering them unable to be savoured or appreciated.