Eliza Pepermans
Dinner is served

The exhibition, entitled Dinner is Served, presents a new series of still lifes depicting fruit, lobsters, sunflowers, and books. With exuberant colours and lively images, Pepermans’ paintings initially feel airy and playful. But behind the apparent naïve directness and flamboyant energy lies a consistent search for composition, form and colour. She spends a long time observing and analysing her surroundings in order to subsequently translate her impressions into a pictorial representation; the seemingly grey objects and surroundings are brought to life in an imaginative universe, balancing on the edge of recognisability. For this new series of paintings, Pepermans decided to travel through her imagination, which allowed her to meet up with Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Léger, to dine with them, and to sample their colour palette. At the same time, however, the artist is refining her work. The technique prevails and the story becomes secondary. This way, she ends up challenging the audience more than ever to stand still and look attentively. As an artist, Pepermans likes to put the viewer on the wrong track and to play with perspective, meaning and style. She demarcates her frame like a playing field and within this restriction juggles up