Anne Buckwalter paints realms of the subtly unexpected. As minutely detailed as they are charmingly mysterious, her paintings are visual delights that draw the viewer into the dainty homes of strangers, whose strangeness reveals itself, one detail at the time.

Double Dusk is Anne Buckwalter’s first presentation at MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, presenting a series of new works that deal with the portrayal of intimacy, and the delicate tension between private and public, the personal and collective.

Peering into Anne Buckwalter’s homes, we find ourselves gazing at colours, patterns and textures reminiscent of the Pennsylvania Dutch, naif aesthetic of her childhood.

Never entirely visible, human bodies - sometimes naked, unaware of the viewer’s gaze, are absorbed by the calm and intimacy of their homes. Anne Buckwalter places the viewer in the involuntary position of voyeur, revealing the raw, surprisingly relatable simplicity of other people’s privacy.

As the artist explains, formal perfection doesn’t exist, so it is interesting to “gesture towards it” knowing that it is impossible to attain.

With this in mind, Buckwalter plays with the illusion of order and perfection. As if collaged together, creating an illusion of flatness, her clearly delineated, almost geometric volumes are often divided in two, not quite symmetrical parts.

Like a game of “7 differences” we find ourselves peering at twin realities, coexisting in the same picture. Two alarm clocks set 1 minute apart, moons at different heights in the night sky through the window, books open at different pages, or TV screens playing different movies side by side… mirroring each other, her pictures become the depictions of their inhabitants’ unique perspectives.

The longer we look, the clearer it becomes that her paintings are portraits of inner space: both of the rooms, and of their inhabitants, withholding all the contradictions and simplicity of individual existence.