Enosis

Curated by Jenn Ellis & Lucy von Goetz

Johanna Bath, Gareth Cadwallader, Danielle Fretwell, Marta Ravasi, Felipe Suzuki, Yijia Wu

Exhibition March 12 – April 27, 2025. 200 Battersea Park Rd, SW11 4ND London

Marta Ravasi, ‘Melone rosa’, 2025, oil on canva, 18 x 23 cm. Courtesy of artist and Acappella

Apsara Studio and von Goetz are excited to present Enosis, a new painting exhibition at our space on Battersea Park Road. Showcasing works by seven international artists—Johanna Bath, Gareth Cadwallader, Danielle Fretwell, Marta Ravasi, Felipe Suzuki, and Yijia Wu—Enosis brings together diverse styles and fresh perspectives in contemporary painting.

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Marta Ravasi lives and works in Milan. She studied at the Fine Art Accademy of Brera, Milan, Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Bruxelles and UAL, London. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Solo Geometry, Painter Painting Paintings, 2024; Marta Ravasi, Diez Gallery, 2024; Bucce, Galleria Acappella, Naples, 2023. Among her recent group exhibitions: Distance of the rim, Tokyo, 2025; Le cose che non sappiamo, Romero Paprocki, Paris, 2025; Familiar, Gauli Zitter, Bruxells, 2024.

Danielle Fretwell lives and works in Boston, USA. Fretwell received her BFA from Endicott College in 2018, and her MFA from Boston University in 2021. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Shallow Invitations’, Alice Amati, London (2024); ‘Infinite Loop’, Alice Amati, London, (2023); ‘Human Nature’, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, (2022); ‘Objectivity’, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, (2021); ‘No Matter How Delicate’, Heftler Visiting Artist Gallery, Beverly, MA, (2021); ‘Characters, All’, Tiger Strikes Astroid, Brooklyn, (2021); ‘IYKYK: Are You Ready For The Future?’, Pianocraft Gallery, Boston MA, (2021). She was awarded the ‘MyMA Artist Grant’ in 2023, and in 2021 was an artist in residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA.

Felipe Suzuki was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. He studied at Belas Artes SP and Miami Ad School. His work explores painting as a means of translating memories and emotions, using still lifes, landscapes, and figures that often flirt with abstraction. With an approach that favors suggestion over completeness, Felipe creates compositions that evoke an atmosphere of mist and transience. His paintings possess an ethereal quality, delicately and timelessly connecting to memory, creating a dialogue between the visible and the intangible. Felipe seeks to freeze time in his paintings, preserving the essence of memory while eliminating everything unnecessary. The focus is on what truly matters—what transcends the moment and remains alive. His works become portals to a place where the ephemeral and the eternal meet, holding onto stories that memory insists on retaining, even when forms and colors are no longer distinct.

Johanna Bath. Born in 1980 in Warendorf, Germany, Johanna moved to Hamburg after graduating from high school in 1999 to get professional training in Illustration Design at Bildkunst Akademie. She finished with a degree in 2002 but felt the need to deepen and expand her artistic skills, so she applied for Design Studies at the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft, Hamburg (HAW). She graduated with a diploma in Design in 2007, with a strong focus on painting. After short employment in a gallery and a publishing company restoring old comics, she realized she was heavily missing the practice of painting and creating and decided to move back to the rural area where she grew up and pursue her path as a painter. The idea of “time” and everything that is emotionally linked to it, such as memory, transience, and the brevity of a moment, drives her need to paint. Time is abstract and, therefore, tricky to paint, but when connected to our experience and memory, it is filled with sentiment and emotion. When painting, Johanna reflects on those narratives of time and memory and tries to depict „a sense of time“ on canvas.