This solo exhibition is a full-circle retrospective of Lucie Eon's abstract work, charting its complete lifecycle in Berlin from its serendipitous birth in 2019 to its deliberate conclusion in 2024. Gathering nearly every piece created in the city, the show maps a profound artistic evolution that culminates in the first preview of her new figurative direction.

Eon’s journey into painting began with an empty room in an attic loft. After moving to Berlin, a city she describes as an "accidental" home, she found herself in a sublet with an empty space that became an unexpected invitation. Though previously "a pencil-and-paper kinda gal," she was drawn to the physical, three-dimensional texture of acrylics. She bought her first tubes of paint and simply "went with it."

Her abstract process is what the artist calls a "violent meditation." It is an intuitive, gut-driven practice where she works with palette knives, scrapers, and her hands, guided by colours she feels drawn to in the moment. Planning, she found, "practically never worked out." The canvas becomes a record of feeling—a way to let emotions out of her body. She describes a need to then "let it go, let it be its own thing," a release that echoes a meditative practice. This method evolved into a deep fascination with texture, a deliberate push against its limits through marbling, scraping, and cracking, often painting over previous works so that hints of colour emerge through the fissures.

The exhibition's title, 'moving paint, places & people', operates on three levels: the literal action of moving paint, the physical move between places as Eon prepares to leave Berlin, and the capacity of art to move people emotionally. Viewers of her abstract work have often reported feeling strong, sometimes contrary, emotions to those Eon poured into it, completing the cycle of release and connection.

The show documents the end of this abstract period, a shift Eon attributes to both personal growth and a simple need for a new challenge. Where her abstracts explored the intangible world of emotion, her new work turns a celebratory gaze onto the tangible human form. She begins a powerful, new figurative series focusing on fat bodies—"the nooks and folds and overflowing skin bits that most of us hate about ourselves because we were taught to." These pieces, some still in progress and presented here for the first time, are intimate "zoom lenses" on the honest reality of the body. Together, the abstract and figurative works form a dialogue between our inner world and our outer shell.

This exhibition is the closing of a loop: all the paint moved, in the place she moved to, about the feelings that moved through her. It is both a farewell and a beginning.

Lucie Eon is a self-taught French artist and interior designer. Her work is informed by an emotional connection to space and a relentless curiosity about form and colour.