Gisèle Tchitchiama's show Luminaria derives its title from the Latin 'luminaria', light, luminare, and star.

It frames a quest for illumination through encounters with light, fragility, and the ephemeral. Tchitchiama's multiple identities – French, African, woman, wife, mother, daughter – are woven into her interrogations. Presence and absence are at the heart of her conversations, as are journeys into inner and outer landscapes.

Gisèle Tchitchiama's artistic practice is best known for investigating the allure of freedom in her pictorial and abstract universe, giving it form by examining the relationship between colour and brushstroke. Tchitchiama continually tries to clarify the transcendence of identity, an elegant fluidity in which a new sense of peace and gentleness is created.

A French artist, Tchitchiama concentrates on employing a powerfully evocative dreamscape, using distinctive strokes of paint that are like shadows of both force and lightness, creating a poetry between her profound use of colours, the material used, and the act of creating. Tchitchiama invites us to take a moment to enter our personal cosmos of light and intimacy with oneself, inspiring those who engage with her work to rediscover the beauty of humanity within oneself.