Baert Gallery is pleased to anounce Twofold Vision, an exhibition of new oil paintings by London-based artist Sophie Birch, in her first solo show with the gallery. Built up in veils of abraded colour, Birch’s layered compositions make visible their construction. She uses an array of implements – brushes, cloths, palette knives, sandpaper – to apply paint and scrape or grind it away until what remains are unstill records of addition and removal, revelation and obscurity, delicacy and force, thought and touch. Overlaid translucencies and textures appear like membranes between interior and exterior realms; their interactions producing moments of optical anomaly and disturbance, invoking stumbling fugue states, through which constellations of images merge and overlap.