Enosis

von Goetz and Apsara Studio are excited to present Enosis, a new exhibition at our space on Battersea Park Road. Showcasing works by six international artists—Johanna Bath, Gareth Cadwallader, Danielle Fretwell, Marta Ravasi, Felipe Suzuki, and Yijia Wu.

 

‘Enosis’ in its most simple expression, is from the Greek ‘henõsis’, meaning union. Drawing upon the age-old act of commensality, Enosis takes its starting point as the tables, fruits, and rituals of union and sharing. 

 

Bringing together fresh perspectives in contemporary painting and sculpture the exhibition gives a moment for pause. A repast that creates a hiatus in the day, the lighting of a candle lifting memories, lilies offering hope. These acts of communion and elemental union bring a togetherness lifted out of rhythmic time. 

 

The shared spaces and common ground of Enosis centralise the subjective experience, creating a discrete, intimate rendering of the image.

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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.

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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 colours are no longer distinct.

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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 realised 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.

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Yijia Wu is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, currently a resident at Sarabande Foundation. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fine Art in 2021 and completed her MA studies in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art in 2023. Wu’s practice explores the everydayness, fluid notion of home, and both collective and individual experiences of migration. Through performance, sculpture, and installation, she utilises mundane, often domestic materials to create paradoxical situations for everyday life. In her recent work, Wu delves into the cultural significance embedded within ordinary objects and materials. She reexamines the symbolic and cultural meanings associated with each medium and weaves a narrative that portrays her journey and the story of being a migrant while creating a language that is absurd yet familiar, nostalgic yet present. Wu’s work has been shown internationally at places such as Tate Modern, BBC1, and the Ulay Foundation in Slovenia. She has exhibited in group shows including Ceramics in the City at the Museum of Home in London, Wonderland at Filet, London, No Man’s Land at A.P.T. Gallery, London, and Elephant in the Room at the Dòng Gallery, Beijing. In 2024, she had her first solo show Roots in the Wind at Crum Heaven in Stockholm 2024. Her works are part of the University of the Arts London Collections. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the NOVA Award, CASS Art Prize, and Barry Martin Prize.

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