Kerlin Gallery is pleased to announce Twofold, an exhibition of new paintings by Liliane Tomasko.

In Twofold, Liliane Tomasko’s distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour unfold across five new diptychs on aluminium and linen. Opening up spatial possibility, this format allows tone, form and texture to dialogue back and forth across surfaces, sparking new resonances and shaping our understanding of each panel in relation to its neighbour. These paintings must negotiate two distinct voices – sometimes finding harmony, elsewhere tension; forging complex relationships that actively engage the viewer. “To confront these monumental diptychs of Tomasko is to enter a garden of forking paths, a forest of signs,” writes critic Raphy Sarkissian in a newly commissioned text. “Diaphanous and opaque forms coexist within these enigmatic diptychs.”

Like much of Tomasko’s oeuvre, the works in Twofold appear abstract but bear deep and tangled connections to the pictorial and narrative worlds. Larger shapes, suggestive of figures, come in and out of focus, fragmenting and coming back together in the mind’s eye. The work is also shaped by the artist’s longstanding interest in mythologies, particularly narratives of equilibrium and justice, such as the ancient concept of the weighing of the soul. Tomasko’s enquiry into form, colour and shape, and the profound emotional resonances they can imbue, is continued in a new series of works on paper. Each one offers a discordant web of colour and line; a denser counterpoint to the expansive duality of the diptychs. Together, the works in Twofold offer a luminous excavation of the human psyche.