Toulu Hassani: Fall Back Into Place

Over the past fifteen years, Toulu Hassani has developed a painterly practice in which lines, pencil marks, geometric forms, and mathematical structures converge into a dense, regulatory network of images. Within these pictorial worlds, the artist articulates moments of identity formation that place the individual human subject in direct relation to overarching universal forces beyond imagination. Natural-scientific references—particularly from astrophysics—serve as recurring points of orientation within Hassani’s work. In her fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, titled “Fall Back Into Place”, her established grid paintings in oil encounter large-format celestial constellations and small-format airbrush works. Together, these three groups articulate a painterly cosmos that navigates the tension between order and disorder, system and randomness. The material must prove itself to intuition on the substrate. Thus, geometric patterns or ornamental lines are often found closely spaced together in these works, which after prolonged viewing collapse in their own logic. Sudden changes of direction cause the viewer to abandon the search for a resolution to a system without answers.