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Kyra Papé Holz is an abstract artist working with fluid mediums. She explores form and its disruption. She works primarily in drawing but also includes printmaking and sculpture. Her interests are in the boundaries or non-boundaries that are being pushed, destabilised, or contained. Her practice is a response to her personal, emotional, and physical material experiences.

“I would simply like to move through the chaos, to find those beautiful moments of peace, to find balance.”

Her work began to shift after she experienced a traumatic loss and has moved towards an exploration of peaceful chaos. While maintaining her exploration of disrupted boundaries, she is now exploring the ebb and flow of the human experience in an abstract way. Her practice is deeply rooted in the dichotomies of existence, in the fragility of change, and in the reality of impermanence.

My upcoming solo show Title: “If you tear the paper, the ship will sink” – alludes to the ideas of disruption, balance and fragility. It is human nature to crave a sense of understanding, whether the answers are accessible or not. In her capacity, Papé Holz tries to make sense of the chaos of life through her abstract drawings. In her process, she visualises control and repetition co-existing with fluid and free mark-making. Her work does not intend to display difference, rather she explores the blurring of the boundary.

“I work intuitively, the ink and I play, dance and get lost. I don’t work with any preconceived ideas; I allow myself the freedom to make. While some works and I may battle others are a breeze. I may not always have the words to express what I want to say, but my art is my language, my way of making sense of the world, and my experience of it.”