JESSICA MORITZ | LIGHT RIPPLES

Jessica Moritz’s solo exhibition 'LIGHT RIPPLES' delves into the fragile equilibrium between chaos and order, tracing the artist’s ongoing exploration of spirituality and materiality. Through her abstract, colorful paintings, she channels an intimate dialogue between instinct and control, allowing her practice to become both a meditative act and an inquiry into the unseen forces shaping perception and existence.

Moritz often works with familiar and recycled materials - such as wooden boards and denim textiles. Her process is one of transformation, acting as a shapeshifter to turn these found items into new artwork. By reclaiming them as canvases or three-dimensional structures, she pushes the boundaries of painting itself. She approaches them as one might observe a natural ecosystem: letting herself be guided by the tension between each element. Pigment spreads and settles with its own logic, and she moves alongside these shifts. Her compositions grow gradually, echoing patterns and rhythms that feel rooted in the natural world - as though the environment itself speaks through the canvas.

Drawing inspiration from the natural order and the disruptive impact of human presence, her works unfold as imaginary landscapes composed of organic and geometric forms, often structured around gradients of color and light. Within these spaces, recurring symbols - the moon, sun, circle, or wave - appear as archetypes of universal harmony, anchoring her compositions in a timeless dialogue between nature and the human spirit.

Moritz’s approach to painting emphasizes depth within flatness. Her delicate gradients and use of color defy the eye’s perception and habits, creating the illusion of illuminated voids. Where edges seem to end, the eye experiences a new dimension, a space where light and shadow coexist, suggesting an otherworldly sense of calm. Using layered brushstrokes rather than sprayed acrylic paint, she builds her surfaces systematically from the edges inward, generating a visual rhythm that evokes both expansion and introspection.

Painting becomes a quiet ceremony: in each composition, forms return, not to repeat but to evolve. She describes these repetitions as rituals - “they anchor me in the present while pulling threads from memory and sensation.”

Each painting seems to contain an invisible architecture - an inner order that defies rational perception. It is through this quiet construction that her canvases transcend the material and open onto the metaphysical. Her practice becomes a form of spiritual reflection, where the tension between chaos and order transforms into a space for revelation, grace, and the possibility of transcendence.

Curator: Nathalie Wertheimer