Jedda-Daisy Culley: Lucid Bodies

CASSANDRA BIRD Paris, supported by ZIMMERMANN, is delighted to present _Lucid Bodies_, a solo exhibition by Paris-based Australian artist Jedda-Daisy Culley. _Lucid Bodies_ brings together a compelling new series of paintings that explore the body as a transformative site of experience. Moving between figuration and abstraction, Culley's paintings depict feminine figures in states of continual becoming, where memory, sensation, desire, and dreams shape and reshape the body. Culley's paintings inhabit a shifting and ambiguous space in which figures emerge, dissolve, and reform as emotional and psychological landscapes rather than fixed representations. Throughout the exhibition, womanhood and femininity are approached as an evolving presence. Figures drift through fields of colour like celestial bodies navigating invisible currents, their gestures carrying traces of intimacy, tenderness, vulnerability, pleasure, shadow, and transformation.The body becomes a threshold between self and environment, consciousness and sensation, reality and the imagined. Drawing upon lived experience, emotional truth, and perception, Culley expands the possibilities of figurative painting. What initially appears as the human body gradually unfolds into a terrain of feeling, where memory, imagination, and personal experience converge. Guided by intuition and association, her paintings resist fixed narratives, allowing meaning to emerge through each viewer's encounter with the work. Across the exhibition, the figure remains in a continual state of transformation. Bodies dissolve into landscapes and portals, gestures awaken memories, and paint itself becomes a vessel for poetic experience. Here, abstraction does not signal the disappearance of the figure but its expansion, enabling the body to exist beyond physical description and enter states of feeling, imagination and memory.