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Ikigai, 2023
Price
€7,000
Medium
Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
Technique
Painting
Dimensions
120 × 180 cm
Year
2023
Edition
1/1
About the Work
“Ikigai unfolds through deep cerulean and indigo fields layered with gestural brushwork, where underlying textures subtly infer feminine curvature without fully resolving into figuration. Passages of white space interrupt the density of blue, introducing air, lightness, and moments of visual exhale within the composition’s emotional weight. Gold pigment and fragments of gold leaf move across the surface in intentionally imperfect lines, echoing the Japanese concept of Ikigai, a lived sense of purpose discovered through balance, devotion, and becoming rather than perfection. Created during a residency on Portobello Road, the work carries the rhythm of movement and reflection, where abstraction becomes a meditative space between presence and impermanence. Within The DANCE: Between Polarity, the painting exists as both atmosphere and embodiment, holding tension between depth and openness, structure and surrender.”
Artist
Bailey Lalonde
View ProfileLALONDE & LALONDE are an international artist duo whose collaborative practice builds on extensive independent careers. Bailey Lalonde (b. 1993) is a Canadian-born, Costa Rica-raised multidisciplinary artist and curator. Her work spans painting, performance, and film, and has been exhibited across New York, London, Paris, Milan, Amsterdam, Malta, Düsseldorf, Costa Rica, and Miami Art Basel. She has curated over 40 exhibitions featuring more than 250 artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Christi Lalonde maintains an independent studio practice alongside the collaboration, informed by her background as a professional dancer and interior designer. LALONDE & LALONDE is the collaborative painting practice of Bailey and Christi Lalonde. Working on shared canvases, the mother–daughter duo produces figurative paintings through a sustained process of layering, interruption, and reworking. Their approach, both additive and reductive, dissolves singular authorship while maintaining a unified visual language. Situated within contemporary abstract figuration, their work balances gesture and restraint, allowing figures to emerge through materially driven surfaces rather than narrative construction. Rooted in dialogue, the practice operates as an ongoing negotiation of mark-making, where control and intuition remain in constant exchange. The resulting paintings emphasize presence, embodiment, and emotional immediacy. Developed as a focused body of work over the past two years, LALONDE & LALONDE has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections.
Exhibitions
- EMBRACE MILANO2025, Eterno, Milano, IT
- EMBRACE LONDON2025, Mortimer House by Maslow’s, London, UK
- DOLCE VITA2025, Casa Vista Escondida by Christie’s, Potrero, CR
- EMBRACE2024, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
- DEKONSTRUKT2023, LoftM71, Düsseldorf, DE