Rooted in personal loss, Lotte Wieringa work explores the transient individual body and the everlasting cyclic ecology of which we are all a part. The large, full-body gestures that shape the canvases are intuitive and spontaneous, yet intentional. By putting practice over theory, she emphasizes the significance of embodied knowing, challenging the Cartesian view of mind-body separation. The physicality of the painting process empowers the body as a source of wisdom, a holder of truth, a site of refusal, and as a way to envision alternatives. 

The deep red works, for example, invoke feelings of discomfort. They can even be seen as violent, angry, or mad; simultaneously, they resemble the womb with its fleshy, feminine, and bloody tactility. These visceral pieces address violence across various dimensions: human-to-human, human-to-animal, and human-to-nature. By these means, the paintings don’t offer fixed images but rather resonate with the complex, transient pulse of existence itself.

With her works, she aims to broaden the foundations from which we can obtain knowledge to understand what it means to be human, to be a living entity, and to care for the world.