Lizzie Zelter

fog floats, shiny clutter
edges lean between floorboards
slivers climb upside down

Encarte presents the exhibition Snakes and Ladders as a process-based exploration of abstract painting, in which the visual elements of Lizzie Zelter’s movements intertwine across time and space, like a game with no clear beginning or end. Through the layering of color, rhythm, and brushstrokes, the works reveal worlds that dwell in the cracks of the everyday: between the fissures of the pavement, in an almost invisible hole in the wood of a fence, or at that ambiguous point where we no longer know where a mirror begins or ends as it merges with the detail of someone else’s garment.

Drawing from the decontextualization of common architectures, Zelter transforms fragments of the built environment into visual thresholds. Inverted scales, floating surfaces, and glimmers that rise in reverse activate an unstable perception, where the domestic, the urban, and the bureaucratic are disguised and folded back onto themselves. As in a game of snakes and ladders, the pictorial journey moves forward and backward, proposing an experience of drift: an invitation to look again at what usually goes unnoticed, and to find, in the very process of painting, ways of inhabiting space through intuition and fracture.

— Encarte