Monday 6 September - 15 September: Installation, In-Vestments by Gracjana Rejmer-Canovas

A contemporary artist's view of shape, colour, ritual, symbolism and ceremony.

Gracjana Rejmer-Canovas brings colour, form and spiritual resonance into conversation with the architecture of St John’s Hampstead Parish Church. Her site-specific installation features large-scale textile forms placed both inside and outside the church, responding to its structure with harmony and presence while allowing each piece to retain its individual voice.

Drawing from her Catholic upbringing in Poland, Rejmer-Canovas reflects on the liturgical garments she observed as a child. The chasuble, a T-shaped ceremonial robe, becomes a recurring motif, reimagined through sacred geometry and minimalist abstraction. Semi-circles, rectangles and squares are used to explore themes of perfection and imperfection, the visible and the unseen.

Colour plays a central role in her work, conveying emotion and symbolic meaning. It speaks to opposites—life and death, joy and sorrow—and becomes a language of feeling and intention.

The making process is meditative. Fabric is carefully prepared, then hand-pleated to create rhythm and movement. Each pleated form resonates with the next, building a collective presence. Assembled together, they offer an installation that invites contemplation through its interplay of colour, form and kinetic energy.

Rejmer-Canovas was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1984. She has graduated from Slade School of Fine Art in London, and now lives and works in London.

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