Galerie Ron Mandos is pleased to present Zacht, a new exhibition by Katinka Lampe, shown alongside Pip Greenaway’s solo Too much to swallow.

In this new body of work, Lampe allows the portrait to move into the background. Out of the light and into the shadow. Alongside this shift, she introduces paintings with multiple figures on a single canvas, exploring what happens when attention is divided and when the gaze moves beyond the spotlight.

For decades, portraiture has been the framework of Lampe’s practice. It allows her to reflect on how we look at one another, and how we ourselves are being percieved. In this new series, Lampe questions how central the portrait still needs to be within her work. Her paintings move through a process of appearance and disappearance: figures gradually emerge from the canvas, only to fade back into shadow.

Several works no longer include the human body at all. Rows of dresses, based on garments from the collection of Museum Rotterdam, speak about identity. The garments become traces of lives once lived, temporarily held and inhabited by others.

For the first time, Lampe also embraces multi-figure compositions. Where she previously avoided narrative, these new works allow for inclusion and softness. Zacht reflects on visibility and power: who is seen, who remains at the margins, and whether it is possible to look at one another without hierarchy. Rather than hardness or judgement, the exhibition proposes attentiveness, vulnerability, and softness as active positions.