FIELDGATE GALLERY contemporary art and project space

For New Life and the Dream Garden, Lieshout will present his new work commissioned for the show. It is a new version of a
series of works all titled “Anteroom”. These works are installations with screens, reorganising private spaces, like an artist’s
studio or living room. This version consists of a 24-panel screen, decorated with flowery wallpaper, folded up, hinged on both
sides of a doorway and placed on wheels. When pushed open the screen creates a space unfolding from the doorway. The work
explores the idea of an anteroom occupying the space in limbo between two rooms. Lieshout’s interest in the notion of space and
decoration applies to various aspects of the household, including furniture carpentry, curtain and dress garnishing, and pastry
baking. He uses sugar icing to decorate/cover the main subject of found paintings and postcards. Hiding behind the decoration
is the issue of concealment. The absence of the subject therefore has become the new subject of the work. The layers of
concealment he creates are often hermetic. They tend to overgrow objects or cover up interior spaces as an impenetrable
boundary, letting nothing in or out.