Last chance: Bobbi Essers captures the intimacy of trust
How do you give friendship, closeness and memory a lasting form? Painter Bobbi Essers explores this question in ‘Love Ridden (I’ve looked at you)’, her first solo exhibition at Stigter Van Doesburg in Amsterdam. In large, layered canvases, she depicts moments of togetherness within her circle of friends. The result is a series of cinematic scenes that feel personal yet remain recognisable and universal. Her work is a painterly translation of how memories actually unfold: fragmented, layered and constantly in motion. The exhibition captures the rhythm and zeitgeist of a generation and shows how Essers captures intimacy, trust and identity in paint. Her work breathes the freedom of a community in which gender, sexuality and identity are fluid, without the need to explicitly state it. The power lies in the natural ease with which this diversity is present.