CURATORIAL REVIEW | December 11, 2025
WHERE MEMORY BLOOMS IN COLOUR
Gardens, bodies, animals,
and emotional landscapes dissolving into one another
Written by Laura Acosta
Worlds in Suspension: Where Bodies, Plants, and Landscapes Merge
Anne-Sophie Tschiegg paints as if colour were a form of remembering. Her canvases unfold as dense, layered fields where irises, figures, cats, landscapes, and abstract forms coexist in a state of vibrant interdependence. Nothing is isolated; petals bleed into skies, bodies dissolve into foliage, eyes appear within hills or leaves. Every stroke feels like an echo of something lived.
Her works oscillate between figuration and abstraction, refusing to settle into either. This ambiguity generates a dreamlike, elastic space where memory and sensation coexist.
Anne-sophie portrait.
Le jardin
Chromatic Resonances Colour as an Emotional Frequency
Colour, in Tschiegg’s hands, is alive. Acid greens collide with dusty pinks; violet irises open against mustard grounds; flesh tones hover within fields of orange and teal. These chromatic tensions evoke the layered nature of memory: longing, joy, regret, tenderness.
Her surfaces bear the traces of constant revision — glazes, scratches, overlays — creating a sense of lived time. The painting feels grown, not made.
Figures in Metamorphosis Identity as Expansion
Figures sleep, embrace, rest with animals, or emerge from abstract fields like thoughts taking form. Faces appear partially obscured, turned away, or integrated into the landscape. Tschiegg paints transformation rather than representation.
Identity is relational — shaped by the environments we inhabit and the memories that anchor us. A trio of figures under blankets becomes a topography of intimacy; folded sheets echo hills; warmth becomes landscape.
Andy
Gardens as Emotional Geography, the Space Where Memory Takes Root.
Plants, especially irises and dense vegetation, act as mediators between worlds. They complicate depth, obscure or reveal figures, and introduce a sense of movement. Rooted yet fluid, they mirror memory’s structure: grounded in a specific past, expanding into imagination.
The garden becomes a psychic territory — a space of transition, where past, present, and possibility coexist.
The Blooming of Memory. A Painting that Breathes.
Everything in these canvases participates in a shared vibrancy: cats and flowers, lovers and landscapes, hands and horizons. The works feel suspended between timeframes — glimpses of childhood summers, shared beds, wandering animals, fleeting encounters.
Tschiegg chooses ambiguity and slowness. She reminds us that seeing is shaped by affection, history, and the subtle negotiations between what we notice and what we forget. Her paintings invite us to linger, to let colour work on the body, to feel the emotional temperature of memory.
In these blooming worlds, memory is not something recalled — it is something lived.
Mes trois oncles
PRESS VERSION — ANNE-SOPHIE TSCHIEGG
Anne-Sophie Tschiegg crafts lush emotional landscapes where bodies, plants, animals, and skies merge into vivid ecosystems of colour. Her layered brushwork and bold palette transform memory into a living, blooming organism. Figures rest within gardens, cats wander across irises, and landscapes dissolve into psychological states. Through this porous visual language, Tschiegg explores intimacy, transformation, and the fluid boundaries between inner life and the natural world, creating vibrant scenes where emotion becomes landscape and colour becomes memory.
—Laura Acosta
Curator & Creative Director, Arttyco
Written in Barcelona, October 2025
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Laura Acosta, Curator and Creative Director at Arttyco, combines her background in architecture, interior design, and cultural management to create accessible and engaging contemporary art experiences. Her multidisciplinary approach emphasizes spatial awareness and deep audience connection.
