Gillian Lawler's 'Edgelands' explores boundaries between reality and imagination in Turin

Gillian Lawler's solo exhibition 'Edgelands' at Galleria Weber & Weber in Turin presents her latest series of paintings that investigate the concept of borders. The Irish artist (b. 1979, Dublin) divides each canvas into two parts, creating a demarcation where light meets geometric forms floating in empty backgrounds, producing an atemporal, abstract, and dreamlike dimension. Lawler describes 'Edgelands' as transitional zones where urban and natural worlds meet, often uninhabited wastelands. She relies on memory and reminiscence rather than direct references, filtering experiences to their most elemental forms. The geometric boundaries serve as markers where real and imagined worlds intersect and cross, inspired by filmmaker and painter David Lynch's use of fluid, dreamlike portals. Lawler has been invited by artist and educator Rebecca Sitar to participate in a group exhibition titled 'On Walking,' bringing together seven artists whose work engages with wonder, encounters, and things glimpsed, remembered, or imagined.