About

Zarah Flesser was born 1978 in Gothenburg, Sweden. She was raised in Helsingborg, by her mother from Copenhagen and her father from Budapest. Art has been around her all of her life–in her childhood home, and in the family-owned gallery, in which she from an early age experienced modern art and met internationally renowned artists. From a family of artists and artisans herself, she is now a full-time artist, while also running and co-owning the family gallery in Helsingborg.

Zarah’s work is based on traditional acrylic painting, mixed with less conventional collage techniques using reflective and holographic foils, lending her paintings a quality not easily captured in photos. Her art appears different depending on light, environment, and viewing angle. This transformative characteristic invites the viewer to spend time with the work, creating a space for contemplation, a natural moment and opportunity for the observer to discover different viewpoints and meanings and thus reflect, introspect and perhaps even heal. The paintings themselves become places to wander in, states of transition evoking a sense of nostalgia; a longing for a warm past that is no longer accessible, or perhaps never existed in the first place. These places are abstract, yet recognizable, like a distant memory. Urban landscapes and mundane man-made structures such as high rises, or parking lots, become ethereal in Zarah’s paintings. A sense of whimsy blends and harmonizes with the melancholic aspects, adding a touch of playfulness to further and emphasize that there is joy to be found even in the most crushing of situations we find ourselves in. Colorful vegetation and humoristic details become more apparent with each viewing, and as the light changes with the hours of the day, new expressions, colors and ideas emerge from her paintings, determined by when, and where you view them.