SO Fine Art Editions is delighted to present Congruence, a two-person exhibition bringing together recent works by French-Swiss artist Emmanuel Matt and Irish visual artist Pascal Ungerer. This exhibition explores liminal landscapes, both real and imagined, seen through two very unique but complementary artistic perspectives. Together, Ungerer and Matt’s works transform the landscape into a site of memory, tension and possibility. Congruence offers a conversation between two artists whose practices, though visually different, share a deep reverence for the earth, its histories and its uncertain futures.

Emmanuel Matt (France / Switzerland) brings a lifelong engagement with his surrounding landscape and its layered histories. His work moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration, exploring the unseen energies of memories, dreams and myths embedded in our surroundings, while also reinterpreting the traditional ways we depict our landscapes. Working primarily in oil on canvas, Matt mixes his own colours using earth pigments, and also creates works on paper in oil, ink, pastel and graphite. His process begins with feelings and somatic impressions, evolving through drawing and watercolour studies into compositions rich in rhythm and improvisation. Deeply inspired by both natural forms and the abstraction of music, Matt’s paintings celebrate a sense of connectedness to those who have gone before us, acknowledging their resonance and the imprint they leave on the landscapes of our lives. Born in Germany, Matt was educated in Switzerland and the UK and lived in the US for thirty years before settling in the north-west of Ireland. He trained under artist Loul Schopfer (a student of Despiau) and later as a sculptor, a discipline that continues to inform his approach to painting. His influences range from early human cave paintings to Cezanne, Giorgio Morandi, Joseph Albers and the Amish quilting tradition.

Pascal Ungerer (West Cork, Ireland) works primarily in oil painting, drawing from his background in commercial photography to construct fictionalised, often dystopian landscapes grounded in real topographies. These metaphorical environments are infused with a heightened sense of otherness as Ungerer uses colour to evoke a sense of strangeness and uncertainty. His painting practice examines the tension between the built and natural worlds and explores spatial cultures with a particular focus on peripheral, marginal and transitional landscapes. Ungerer approaches painting as an act of investigation, uncovering “hidden layers of meaning” embedded in the everyday, while reflecting on wider socio-geographic issues and speculating on possible futures in the age of the Anthropocene. His recent solo exhibitions include Other Ground (The LAB Gallery, Dublin, 2025) and Speculative Artefacts (The Uillinn West Cork Art Centre, 2023). He has also exhibited extensively throughout Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe, including The Saatchi Gallery (London), Roman Road Gallery (London), Visual Centre for Contemporary Art (Ireland) and CICA Museum (South Korea). His work has won, been shortlisted and long-listed for many awards and is held in private collections across Europe, UK and the United States.