Anemoia
Aaron Rigal
Amanda Seibæk
May 14 - June 21
2025
Aaron Rigal
Amanda Seibæk
May 14 - June 21
2025
Anemoia - “Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.”
Flexitron is pleased to present Anemoia, a duo exhibition of work by Aaron Rigal and Amanda Seibæk. Centred around an imagined nostalgia, Rigal and Seibæk’s paintings are born from a deep interest in the medium of paint, using its materiality to excavate a place or feeling that is intangible.
We often experience a moment of familiarity in places we have never been to - a deja vu, if you will. Whether these moments are part of a greater collective memory, or a way to find the known in the unknown to make us feel more comfortable, we often try and find the familiar in something novel. Looking back to recurrent themes throughout the history of painting, Rigal and Seibæk work from the inclination to explore something innately beautiful or striking, creating portals to somewhere unknown. In a strange happenstance, both artists coincidentally drew specific inspiration from the work of Gustav Klimt in their recent paintings, creating a subtle starting point between the two practices. As they both put it: painter’s painting in response to painting.
Exploring the ambiguity and physical properties of the medium, Aaron Rigal draws a subtle line between the tangible and fictitious. Carved and pulled out of their many layers, Rigal’s paintings become a relic of the emotions and decisions made during their making. Within his process, there is a core belief that a painting can never truly be finished, that there is an endless number of possibilities for where a work can go, it’s final resting place being decided by an uncanny familiarity that ultimately emerges. There is a defiance to the idea that a painting needs to be about something other than itself, instead letting the process lead the work, the layers building on past histories and moments explored through the journey of the work’s creation. By making images that aren’t based on specific references, the viewer is invited to freely associate their own memory and nostalgia, finding a part of themselves in the process.
Inspired by the traditions of auto-theory, Amanda Seibæk paints from a combination of autobiography, memoir and narrative. Daydreams through places we are yet to visit, Seibæk’s paintings map the minds wanderings through a landscape, layer of paint tracing elusive pathways that hold with them a subtle feeling of the senses and memory. Releasing her works from a specific moment, she allows multiple memories or places to collide together, each layer of paint questioning broader ideas of philosophy, astrology, science and our place in the world. Lost within a sea of marks, bodies are engulfed in a soft abstraction, with expressive limbs and vegetation emerging and receding back into the protective, transparent film from which they came.
Across the works in Anemoia the viewer is invited to find threads of memories, personal to each individual; an unconscious need to find and attach onto the familiar within portals of the imagined - a desire to find our way back home.
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1. Aaron Rigal, Longleaf, Oil on Canvas, 35m x 30cm, 2025
2. Amanda Seibæk, Ephemeral, Mixed Media on Voile, 50cm x 50cm, 2025
3. Amanda Seibæk, Pink swimmers, Mixed Media on Voile, 40cm x 40c, 2025
4. Aaron Rigal, Portrait in Blue, Oil on Canvas, 20cm x 20cm, 2025
5. Aaron Rigal, Saudade, Oil on Canvas, 30cm x 30cm, 2025
6. Amanda Seibæk, “Flux”, Mixed Media on Voile 23cm x 29cm, 2025
7. Aaron Rigal, Whitestone, Oil on Canvas, 94cm x 74cm, 2025
Biographies:
Aaron Rigal
Aaron Rigal (b.2000, London) lives and works in London. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a BA in Painting and Printmaking in 2022. Rigal was shortlisted for the RBA Rising Stars Rome Residency in 2021. His work has been included in a number of exhibitions, including ‘Changing the subject’, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2024); ‘Are We Nearly There Yet’, Platforms Project, Athens (2023); Morrison Forester Art Prize, The Scalpel, London (2023); ‘Figures in Motion’, the Pipe Factory, Glasgow (2022); RBA Rising Stars Rome Residency, Royal Overseas Club, London (2021).
Amanda Seibæk
Amanda Seibæk (b.1997, Copenhagen) lives and works in Glasgow. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a BA in Painting and Printmaking in 2022. Seibæk has been an artist in residence at Drumfries house, Scotland in 2024 and 2025. Solo presentations include ‘Avenues’, Patricia Flemming, Glasgow (2024); NADA Miami, solo booth with Patricia Flemming (2024); ‘Hemispheres’, SWG3, Glasgow (2023); ‘Shimmer’, Galleri Norup, Copenhagen (2023). She has been featured in a number of group exhibitions including ‘Float and Sink’, Arden Asbæk, Copenhagen (2025); ACS Studio Award, Gurr Johns, London (2024); ‘Daisy Chains’, In-between, Ibiza (2024); ‘For Satin Bowerbirds’, Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow (2024); ‘Pathways to Apricots’, Outlier Gallery, Glasgow (2023); ‘Unbaked Bread’, Changing Room Gallery, London (2022).
Flexitron is pleased to present Anemoia, a duo exhibition of work by Aaron Rigal and Amanda Seibæk. Centred around an imagined nostalgia, Rigal and Seibæk’s paintings are born from a deep interest in the medium of paint, using its materiality to excavate a place or feeling that is intangible.
We often experience a moment of familiarity in places we have never been to - a deja vu, if you will. Whether these moments are part of a greater collective memory, or a way to find the known in the unknown to make us feel more comfortable, we often try and find the familiar in something novel. Looking back to recurrent themes throughout the history of painting, Rigal and Seibæk work from the inclination to explore something innately beautiful or striking, creating portals to somewhere unknown. In a strange happenstance, both artists coincidentally drew specific inspiration from the work of Gustav Klimt in their recent paintings, creating a subtle starting point between the two practices. As they both put it: painter’s painting in response to painting.
Exploring the ambiguity and physical properties of the medium, Aaron Rigal draws a subtle line between the tangible and fictitious. Carved and pulled out of their many layers, Rigal’s paintings become a relic of the emotions and decisions made during their making. Within his process, there is a core belief that a painting can never truly be finished, that there is an endless number of possibilities for where a work can go, it’s final resting place being decided by an uncanny familiarity that ultimately emerges. There is a defiance to the idea that a painting needs to be about something other than itself, instead letting the process lead the work, the layers building on past histories and moments explored through the journey of the work’s creation. By making images that aren’t based on specific references, the viewer is invited to freely associate their own memory and nostalgia, finding a part of themselves in the process.
Inspired by the traditions of auto-theory, Amanda Seibæk paints from a combination of autobiography, memoir and narrative. Daydreams through places we are yet to visit, Seibæk’s paintings map the minds wanderings through a landscape, layer of paint tracing elusive pathways that hold with them a subtle feeling of the senses and memory. Releasing her works from a specific moment, she allows multiple memories or places to collide together, each layer of paint questioning broader ideas of philosophy, astrology, science and our place in the world. Lost within a sea of marks, bodies are engulfed in a soft abstraction, with expressive limbs and vegetation emerging and receding back into the protective, transparent film from which they came.
Across the works in Anemoia the viewer is invited to find threads of memories, personal to each individual; an unconscious need to find and attach onto the familiar within portals of the imagined - a desire to find our way back home.
1. Aaron Rigal, Longleaf, Oil on Canvas, 35m x 30cm, 2025
2. Amanda Seibæk, Ephemeral, Mixed Media on Voile, 50cm x 50cm, 2025
3. Amanda Seibæk, Pink swimmers, Mixed Media on Voile, 40cm x 40c, 2025
4. Aaron Rigal, Portrait in Blue, Oil on Canvas, 20cm x 20cm, 2025
5. Aaron Rigal, Saudade, Oil on Canvas, 30cm x 30cm, 2025
6. Amanda Seibæk, “Flux”, Mixed Media on Voile 23cm x 29cm, 2025
7. Aaron Rigal, Whitestone, Oil on Canvas, 94cm x 74cm, 2025
Biographies:
Aaron Rigal
Aaron Rigal (b.2000, London) lives and works in London. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a BA in Painting and Printmaking in 2022. Rigal was shortlisted for the RBA Rising Stars Rome Residency in 2021. His work has been included in a number of exhibitions, including ‘Changing the subject’, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2024); ‘Are We Nearly There Yet’, Platforms Project, Athens (2023); Morrison Forester Art Prize, The Scalpel, London (2023); ‘Figures in Motion’, the Pipe Factory, Glasgow (2022); RBA Rising Stars Rome Residency, Royal Overseas Club, London (2021).
Amanda Seibæk
Amanda Seibæk (b.1997, Copenhagen) lives and works in Glasgow. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a BA in Painting and Printmaking in 2022. Seibæk has been an artist in residence at Drumfries house, Scotland in 2024 and 2025. Solo presentations include ‘Avenues’, Patricia Flemming, Glasgow (2024); NADA Miami, solo booth with Patricia Flemming (2024); ‘Hemispheres’, SWG3, Glasgow (2023); ‘Shimmer’, Galleri Norup, Copenhagen (2023). She has been featured in a number of group exhibitions including ‘Float and Sink’, Arden Asbæk, Copenhagen (2025); ACS Studio Award, Gurr Johns, London (2024); ‘Daisy Chains’, In-between, Ibiza (2024); ‘For Satin Bowerbirds’, Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow (2024); ‘Pathways to Apricots’, Outlier Gallery, Glasgow (2023); ‘Unbaked Bread’, Changing Room Gallery, London (2022).