05/14/2026
Thank you Colossal and Kate Mothes for the incredible write up on Marina Kappos “Piercing the Veil”, opening tomorrow night from 6-8 pm!
“Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is perhaps one of the world’s most famous burial grounds, home to luminaries like authors Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust, musicians and composers like Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, and even The Doors’ Jim Morrison, among many others. Its family tombs and sculptural headstones are iconic, and when artist Marina Kappos spent time wandering through Père Lachaise during a stay in the city last year, she was intrigued by the sculptures of grieving women she encountered. “They seemed to hold a power in their sadness, but also great beauty and remembrance as they stood guard over many of the tombs,” the artist says.
In Piercing the Veil at SHRINE, Kappos’ solo exhibition that opens this week, the artist delves into the nature of loss and memory. “Grief is a somber subject and multi-layered; it feels fitting for the time we’re living in, but I also saw hope and life bursting through,” she says. Few instances highlight the duality of life and death so well as the context of a cemetery, and that’s where the artist homed in on her interest in relationships between presence and absence, the terrestrial and the spiritual, and impermanence and decay.”
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Marina Kappos
Veil Study (Mirage), 2026
Acrylic on wood panel
16 x 16 in.
