The idealism described in Kremer’s Basic Communities series is matched with a dense, compositional airlessness, painted with colours that offset the tonalities of skin, clothing and background environment. The works in the Soft People series are more capacious in their approach, registering the horror of their subject matter through light and gestural marks that suggest the human body in a cruel state of subjection. Across the two series, Kremer’s works evoke questions of representational ethics in art’s address of human suffering and the promise of social togetherness alike.

Philipp Kremer’s Basic Communities / Soft People will be presented alongside The Complex Seer, an exhibition of work by Emily McFarland.