Hauntological, confrontational and steeped in half-remembered stories.
Noemi Conan is a painter of faces, cats and homes. She is perpetually in between running away and homecoming. Combining memories from a childhood spent in a peripheral Polish town with references ranging from advertising, eerie filmographies, propaganda posters and art historical traditions of both Western and Eastern European painting. Swimming, smoking, staring and confronting a disposession of a sense of self. Everything can be a self-portrait. It’s pretty simple, really. What you see is what there is and the story suggested is exactly what you want it to be.
Conan incorporates contemporary observation and working from memory to create a mood and connect her lived experience with that of others. Storytelling through images to avoid the bluntness of written statements.