Move Baby, Move

Pilar Corrias is pleased to present 'Move Baby, Move', Ragna Bley’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. For this exhibition, Bley examines the unseen forces that influence us, shaping our focus and sense of self. In a time when both humanity and nature are in a state of constant flux, Bley creates a vivid, transportive universe through her paintings. Her approach is deeply personal, drawing on her own sense of place, the unpredictable power of nature and a desire to experiment with the materiality of paint.

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'Move Baby, Move', installation view, Pilar Corrias Savile Row, London, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias, London. Photo: Ben Westoby / Fine Art Documentation.
Ragna Bley Studio Portrait. Photo: Lars Petter Pettersen

Ragna Bley (b. 1986, Uppsala, Sweden) is an artist based in Oslo working with painting, sculpture, text, and performance. She explores the oscillation between the familiar and alien, looking to narratives within biology, literature and science-fiction.

Bley’s colours vacillate over the surface and seep into the canvas, intermixing like currents and creating infinite possibilit...

Ragna Bley (b. 1986, Uppsala, Sweden) is an artist based in Oslo working with painting, sculpture, text, and performance. She explores the oscillation between the familiar and alien, looking to narratives within biology, literature and science-fiction.

Bley’s colours vacillate over the surface and seep into the canvas, intermixing like currents and creating infinite possibilities of grouping and regrouping form. Through this process, Bley traverses the relationship between abstraction and representation. She creates layers and transparencies that hint at familiar shapes and organic matter, though the visual associations that arise from Bley’s paintings are completely individual – and may at times resemble forms that are imperceptible to humans. Certain areas of Bley’s canvases are painted, while some are left bare, alluding to the instability of images, and more broadly, to the slippages between our frameworks of understanding.