Emilia Nurmivaara: House of Dreams

Vibrant, warm interiors filled with assorted furniture and objects bid us welcome in Emilia Nurmivaara’s most recent body of paintings depicting fond interpretations of her childhood home in Finland. The figurative imagery of interior scenes in Nurmivaara’s paintings comes alive through her distinctive and playful use of perspective and proportion. The exhibition House of Dreams is Nurmivaara’s second solo exhibition at Gallery Poulsen. Her works follow a continuation of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s book “The Poetics of Space” which explores how dreams, thoughts and memories become attached to the spaces we inhabit, transforming them into powerful extensions of the soul.