MARILYN SONNEVELD

Solo Exhibition: Marilyn Sonneveld

EDJI Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition, titled Reverie, with Dutch interdisciplinary artist Marilyn Sonneveld. This will marks our first solo presentation with the Amsterdam-based artist, whose interdisciplinary practice spans oil painting and glass objects. The exhibition will bring together new abstract works on canvas alongside glass sculptures and panels, exploring themes of (self-)acceptance, intimacy, and vulnerability.

Exhibition text :

In Reverie, Marilyn Sonneveld reflects on how memory lingers quietly and how the past continues through us, not as exact replicas, but as something subtly transformed.

The exhibition takes its title from a track from Isao Tomita’s 1974 album, which reimagined classical compositions using early synthesizers. That gesture of reinterpretation resonates throughout Sonneveld’s work. She returns to inherited moments - intimate memories, gestures passed down, emotional traces of those who came before her - and filters them through her own visual language. The result is both very personal and extremely relatable.

At first glance, her oil paintings feel soft and atmospheric, but gradually figures begin to appear. They often remain just out of reach, embedded in layers of color and light. Caught between presence and absence, each painting holds a scene, like a still from a film or a half-remembered moment. Together, they form a quiet narrative of connection, longing and transmission. The idea that we carry fragments of our grandparents or our parents, and still make them our own, sits at the heart of this body of work.

Alongside the paintings, Reverie includes a series of glass sculptures suspended gently from the ceiling. With their curved surfaces and subtle weight, they seem to hold something within, like vessels for memory. They give form to something usually invisible, offering a quiet, bodily presence in the space. These sculptures become starting points, as if memories could be plucked from them and reimagined through painting. For Marilyn, painting is a kind of escape - a place to return to joyful memories and reshape them into something new, something lasting.

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