The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room presents new works by Inniss that test the boundaries of representational painting, using her involuntary memories to evoke sensations that feel familiar yet uncanny. It’s a show about what remains when memory is filtered through the senses, and how identity can be understood as fluid and multidimensional.
The Waiting Room is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Hettie Inniss at GRIMM, Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam. This will be her first solo show in Amsterdam. Inniss’s works in this show respond to multisensory influences and bodily experience—light, scent, sound, memory—and aim to capture involuntary moments of perception. Her canvases shape spaces with their own physics and truths, articulating memory through vivid color, texture, and layered sensations. Her belief in “Black Fluidity” underlies the exhibition’s exploration into the shifting nature of identity.
Exhibition Description
The exhibition features paintings that evoke interiors, architectural elements, or liminal spaces suffused with dispersed light and vibrant, fleshy hues. Working from sensory cues—especially scent—Inniss tries to render what memory feels like: how light behind closed eyes appears, how atmosphere lingers, how emotional resonance remains even when clarity fades.
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