Recipe Box

Lilli Strömland’s paintings linger over the theatre of domestic preparation, where kitchen and studio collapse into a shared site of cultivation. Fruits and vegetables are scattered across tables, their forms tilting upward across spatially ambiguous planes. Corn husks flare open, apples gather around tangled cords, while vessels and striped kitchen towels frame these organic protagonists.

Her subjects sit on the verge of transformation — ingredients poised between raw state and recipe. Here, the construction of a recipe becomes inseparable from the construction of an image: gestures of slicing, measuring and assembling echo in the layering of pigment and mark.